From The Far West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFFFE GHIIIH JKLLLK MNOOOP QKR RK STUUUT KAVVVA| Tis a song of the Never Never land | A |
| Set to the tune of a scorching gale | B |
| On the sandhills red | C |
| When the grasses dead | C |
| Loudly rustle and bow the head | C |
| To the breath of its dusty hail | B |
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| Where the cattle trample a dusty pad | D |
| Across the never ending plain | E |
| And come and go | F |
| With muttering low | F |
| In the time when the rivers cease to flow | F |
| And the Drought King holds his reign | E |
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| When the fiercest piker who ever turned | G |
| With lowered head in defiance proud | H |
| Grown gaunt and weak | I |
| Release doth seek | I |
| In vain from the depths of the slimy creek | I |
| His sepulchre and his shroud | H |
| - | |
| His requiem sung by an insect host | J |
| Born of the pestilential air | K |
| That seethe and swarm | L |
| In hideous form | L |
| Where the stagnant waters lie thick and warm | L |
| And Fever lurks in his lair | K |
| - | |
| Where a placid thirst provoking lake | M |
| Clear in the flashing sunlight lies | N |
| But the stockman knows | O |
| No water flows | O |
| Where the shifting mirage comes and goes | O |
| Like a spectral paradise | P |
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| And crouched in the saltbush' sickly shade | Q |
| Murmurs to Heaven a piteous prayer | K |
| 'O God must I | R |
| Prepare to die ' | - |
| And gazing up at the brazen sky | R |
| Reads his death warrant there | K |
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| Gaunt slinking dingoes snap and snarl | S |
| Watching his slowly ebbing breath | T |
| Crows are flying | U |
| Hoarsely crying | U |
| Burial service o'er the dying | U |
| Foul harbingers of Death | T |
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| Full many a man has perished there | K |
| Whose bones gleam white from the waste of sand | A |
| Who left no name | V |
| On the scroll of Fame | V |
| Yet died in his tracks as well became | V |
| A son of that desert land | A |
Barcroft Boake
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