On The Boundary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFA AGHGIAJA ABKBLAMA ANANOAPA QRSRTUVAI love the ancient boundary fence | A |
That mouldering chock and log | B |
When I go ride the boundary | C |
I let the old horse jog | D |
And take his pleasure in and out | E |
Where the sandalwood grows dense | A |
And tender pines clasp hands across | F |
The log that tops the fence | A |
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'Tis pleasant on the boundary fence | A |
These sultry summer days | G |
A mile away outside the scrub | H |
The plain is all ablaze | G |
The sheep are panting on the camps | I |
The heat is so intense | A |
But here the shade is cool and sweet | J |
Along the boundary fence | A |
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I love to loaf along the fence | A |
So does my collie dog | B |
He often finds a spotted cat | K |
Hid in a hollow log | B |
He's very near as old as I | L |
And ought to have more sense | A |
I've hammered him so many times | M |
Along the boundary fence | A |
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My mother says that boundary fence | A |
Must surely be bewitched | N |
The old man says that through that fence | A |
The neighbours are enriched | N |
It's always down and through the gaps | O |
Our stock all get them hence | A |
I takes me half my time to watch | P |
The doings of that fence | A |
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But should you seek the reason | Q |
You won't travel very far | R |
'Tis there a mile away among | S |
The murmuring Belar | R |
The Jones's block joins on to ours | T |
And so in consequence | U |
It's part of Polly's work to ride | V |
Their side the boundary fence | A |
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