The Wild Kangaroo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFGGF HIJIKLKLMFNFNNF OPQPRSRSTFAFAAF UVUVWXYXZVVFVVFThe rain clouds have gone to the deep | A |
The East like a furnace doth glow | B |
And the day spring is flooding the steep | A |
And sheening the landscape below | B |
Oh ye who are gifted with souls | C |
That delight in the music of birds | D |
Come forth where the scattered mist rolls | C |
And listen to eloquent words | D |
Oh ye who are fond of the sport | E |
And would travel yon wilderness through | F |
Gather each to his place for a life stirring chase | G |
In the wake of the wild Kangaroo | F |
Gather each to his place | G |
For a life stirring chase | G |
In the wake of the wild Kangaroo | F |
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Beyond the wide rents of the fog | H |
The trees are illumined with gold | I |
And the bark of the shepherd's brave dog | J |
Shoots away from the sheltering fold | I |
Down the depths of yon rock border'd glade | K |
A torrent goes foaming along | L |
And the blind owls retire into shade | K |
And the bell bird beginneth its song | L |
By the side of that yawning abyss | M |
Where the vapours are hurrying to | F |
We will merrily pass looking down to the grass | N |
For the tracks of the wild Kangaroo | F |
We will merrily pass | N |
Looking down to the grass | N |
For the tracks of the wild Kangaroo | F |
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Ho brothers away to the woods | O |
Euroka hath clambered the hill | P |
But the morning there seldom intrudes | Q |
Where the night shadows slumber on still | P |
We will roam o'er these forest lands wild | R |
And thread the dark masses of vines | S |
Where the winds like the voice of a child | R |
Are singing aloft in the pines | S |
We must keep down the glee of our hounds | T |
We must steal through the glittering dew | F |
And the breezes shall sleep as we cautiously creep | A |
To the haunts of the wild Kangaroo | F |
And the breezes shall sleep | A |
As we cautiously creep | A |
To the haunts of the wild Kangaroo | F |
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When we pass through a stillness like death | U |
The swamp fowl and timorous quail | V |
Like the leaves in a hurricane's breath | U |
Will start from their nests in the vale | V |
And the forester snuffing the air | W |
Will bound from his covert so dark | X |
While we follow along in the rear | Y |
As arrows speed on to their mark | X |
Then the swift hounds shall bring him to bay | Z |
And we'll send forth a hearty halloo | V |
As we gather them all to be in at the fall | V |
At the death of the wild Kangaroo | F |
As we gather them all | V |
To be in at the fall | V |
At the death of the wild Kangaroo | F |
Henry Kendall
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