The Little Black Cormorant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD AAAAD DEDEDD FGFGAA| By inlet and islet and wide river reaches | A |
| By lake and lagoon I'm at home | B |
| Yet oft' the far forests of blue gum and beeches | A |
| About the broad ranges I roam | B |
| 'There's a strange sombre bird with a hook in his beak ' | C |
| 'Tis the little black cormorant raiding your creek | D |
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| And woe to the fisher and woe to the fishes | A |
| A gourmand I freely confess | A |
| When I come a searching for succulent dishes | A |
| Arrayed in my funeral dress | A |
| Then the fishermen rave and in anger they speak | D |
| 'There's a little black cormorant coming up creek ' | - |
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| But I'm quick and I'm cunning as many a greyling | D |
| A blackfish a trout or a bream | E |
| Has known to his sorrow when down I go sailing | D |
| To hunt him beneath the dark stream | E |
| To my cavernous maw then they all come alike | D |
| And 'tis death should the little black cormorant strike | D |
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| But I am an outlaw I'm hunted and harried | F |
| I'm banned from the havens of men | G |
| And woe is to me if to long I have tarried | F |
| A shot o'er the waters and then | G |
| There is reason indeed for my funeral dress | A |
| For alas here's a little black cormorant less | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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