From Loraine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBBBB DDAA EEFFGGBBHHIIJJBBBB KKLLMM| I have seen the plains lying baked and bare | A |
| When drought and famine hold revel there | A |
| And the cattle sink where the rotting shoals | B |
| Of the fish float dead in the waterholes | B |
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| I have seen the plains when the flood brings down | C |
| The leagues of its waters sullen and brown | C |
| When only the tops of the swaying trees | B |
| Mark the creek that wound thro the level leas | B |
| And all is a sea to the straining eyes | B |
| Save some lonely hut on a distant rise | B |
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| I have seen the plains in the mad delight | D |
| Of the racing flames in their crimson flight | D |
| When the whip of the wind will not stay or spare | A |
| And woe to the rider who lingers there | A |
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| But O the plains when their beauty burst | E |
| On our wondering eyes as we crossed them first | E |
| When the sun shone bright and a soft wind blew | F |
| And the sky was clear with a fairy hue | F |
| And afar like an isle in a sea of mist | G |
| Rose a mountain cap as of amethyst | G |
| And the big horned cattle knee deep in grass | B |
| Wheeled scattered legions to watch us pass | B |
| As we drifted onwards from group to group | H |
| And swift as a bolt came the wild hawk s swoop | H |
| When the brown quail whirled neath our horses feet | I |
| Or the bronzewing broke from his ground retreat | I |
| And the lazy bustard on laggard wing | J |
| Out of easy gunshot was loitering | J |
| And for miles around us at daylight s close | B |
| The little flock pigeons in coveys rose | B |
| And the squadrons flew with a gathering force | B |
| Till an army darkened the watercourse | B |
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| Thus we crossed the plains to their utmost rim | K |
| To the timbered belts round the mountains grim | K |
| Chain upon chain to the north and west | L |
| Rose the swelling ridge and the purple crest | L |
| And the gorges hid from the light of God | M |
| Where the foot of a white man had never trod | M |
George Essex Evans
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