Country Towns - Boort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMGOO PQPQRR| She knows the Mallee's tragedy | A |
| Of thwarted hope of pain | B |
| Of promise wrecked when weak men flee | A |
| And strong men pray in vain | B |
| While day on burning day drifts by | C |
| Beneath a brazen cloudless sky | C |
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| She knows the bane of Mallee dust | D |
| When Mallee droughts come down | E |
| To filch the last of lingering trust | D |
| And darken her small town | E |
| Darken men's hearts and minds until | F |
| Nought serves her save a stubborn will | F |
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| All this she knows Yet she knows too | G |
| On thro' the tale of years | H |
| The changing luck of gamblers who | G |
| Undaunted scorning fears | H |
| Strive on till fickle fortune rains | I |
| A wondrous gift of sudden gains | I |
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| And then she knows that mystic thing | J |
| Her jealous earth concealed | K |
| The glory of a Mallee spring | J |
| And many a fruitful yield | K |
| Of green corn quickened by sweet showers | L |
| And kine that flatten mid the flowers | L |
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| So has she lived beside her lake | M |
| The good and bad years thro' | N |
| Till man made streams now flow to slake | M |
| Her thirsty earth anew | G |
| And man's unconquered will has planned | O |
| New life for this unstable land | O |
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| And who shall say no day may dawn | P |
| When from the Mallee's soil | Q |
| Drought's fingers are at last withdrawn | P |
| Seeking no more their spoil | Q |
| And man and Nature in accord | R |
| Win year by year toll's meet reward | R |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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