River Bend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDBEFGB HHHBIIIB| At River Bend in New South Wales | A |
| All alone among the whales | A |
| Busting up some post and rails | A |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
| In the blazing sun we stand | C |
| Cabbage tree hat black velvet band | C |
| Moleskins stiff with sweat and sand | C |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
| - | |
| In the burning sand we pine | D |
| No one asks us to have a wine | D |
| 'Tis a jolly crooked line | D |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
| When I am sitting on a log | E |
| Looking like a great big frog | F |
| Waiting for a Murray cod | G |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
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| Land of snakes and cockatoos | H |
| Native bears and big emus | H |
| Ugly blacks and kangaroos | H |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
| Paddymelons by the score | I |
| Wild bulls you should hear them roar | I |
| They all belong to Johnny Dore | I |
| Sweet Belle Mahone | B |
Banjo Paterson
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