A Song Of Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCCDDEEFF GGHH IIBBJJBBFF KKBB DDBBLLDDFF KKGGBBDDMMNNFF BBBB BBDDEEDDFFKDFFKKEEOO FF| Because a little vagrant wind veered south from China Sea | A |
| Or else because a sun spot stirred and yet again maybe | A |
| Because some idle god in play breathed on an errant cloud | B |
| The heads of twice two million folk in gratitude are bowed | B |
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| Patter patter Boolconmatta | B |
| Adelaide and Oodnadatta | B |
| Pepegoona parched and dry | C |
| Laugh beneath a dripping sky | C |
| Riverina's thirsting plain | D |
| Knows the benison of rain | D |
| Ararat and Arkaroola | E |
| Render thanks with Tantanoola | E |
| For the blessings they are gaining | F |
| And it's raining raining raining | F |
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| Because a heaven sent monsoon the mists before it drove | G |
| Because things happened in the moon or else because High Jove | G |
| Unbending played at waterman to please a laughing boy | H |
| The hearts through all a continent are raised in grateful joy | H |
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| Weeps the sky at Wipipee | I |
| Far Farina's folk are dippy | I |
| With sheer joy while Ballarat | B |
| Shouts and flings aloft its hat | B |
| Thirsty Thackaringa yells | J |
| Taltabooka gladly tells | J |
| Of a season wet and windy | B |
| Men rejoice on Murrindindie | B |
| Kalioota's ceased complaining | F |
| For it's raining raining raining | F |
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| Because a poor bush parson prayed an altruistic prayer | K |
| Rich with unselfish fellow love that Heaven counted rare | K |
| And yet mayhap because one night a meteor was hurled | B |
| Across the everlasting blue the luck was with our world | B |
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| On the wilds of Winininnie | D |
| Cattle low and horses whinny | D |
| Frolicking with sheer delight | B |
| From Beltana to The Bight | B |
| In the Mallee's sun scorched towns | L |
| In the sheds on Darling Downs | L |
| In the huts at Yudnapinna | D |
| Tents on Tidnacoordininna | D |
| To the sky all heads are craning | F |
| For it's raining raining raining | F |
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| Because some strange cyclonic thing has happened God knows where | K |
| Men dream again of easy days of cash to spend and spare | K |
| The ring fair Clara coveted Belinda's furs are nigh | G |
| As clerklings watch their increments fall shining from the sky | G |
| Rolls the thunder at Eudunda | B |
| Leongatha Boort Kapunda | B |
| Send a joyous message down | D |
| Sorrows flooded sink and drown | D |
| Ninkerloo and Nerim South | M |
| Hail the breaking of the drouth | M |
| From Toolangi's wooded mountains | N |
| Sounds the song of plashing fountains | N |
| Sovereign Summer's might is waning | F |
| It is raining raining raining | F |
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| Because the breeze blew sou' by east across the China Sea | B |
| Or else because the thing was willed through all eternity | B |
| By gods that rule the rushing stars or gods long aeons dead | B |
| The earth is made to smile again and living things are fed | B |
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| Mile on mile from Mallacoota | B |
| Runs the news and far Baroota | B |
| Speeds it over hill and plain | D |
| Till the slogan of the rain | D |
| Rolls afar to Yankalilla | E |
| Wallaroo and Wirrawilla | E |
| Shout it o'er the leagues between | D |
| Telling of the dawning green | D |
| Frogs at Cocoroc are croaking | F |
| Booboorowie soil is soaking | F |
| Oodla Wirra Orroroo | K |
| Breathe relief and hope anew | D |
| Wycheproof and Wollongong | F |
| Catch the burden of the song | F |
| That is rolling rolling ever | K |
| O'er the plains of Never Never | K |
| Sounding in each mountain rill | E |
| Echoing from hill to hill | E |
| In the lonely silent places | O |
| Men lift up their glad wet faces | O |
| And their thanks ask no explaining | F |
| It is raining raining raining | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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