Coomera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJABCD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJICD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJITHERE S a pretty little story with a touch of moonlit glory | A |
Comes from Beenleigh on the Logan but we don t know if it s true | B |
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who edit | C |
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and Barcoo | D |
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Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferry | A |
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tin | E |
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a drifting | D |
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form therein | E |
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And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferry | A |
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless sea | A |
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught her | F |
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was he | A |
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O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the river | F |
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breast | G |
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrow | H |
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the rest | G |
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Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinely | A |
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glass | I |
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloated | J |
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alas THERE S a pretty little story with a touch of moonlit glory | A |
Comes from Beenleigh on the Logan but we don t know if it s true | B |
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who edit | C |
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and Barcoo | D |
- | |
Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferry | A |
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tin | E |
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a drifting | D |
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form therein | E |
- | |
And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferry | A |
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless sea | A |
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught her | F |
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was he | A |
- | |
O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the river | F |
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breast | G |
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrow | H |
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the rest | G |
- | |
Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinely | A |
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glass | I |
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloated | J |
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alas | I |
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who edit | C |
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and Barcoo | D |
- | |
Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferry | A |
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tin | E |
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a drifting | D |
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form therein | E |
- | |
And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferry | A |
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless sea | A |
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught her | F |
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was he | A |
- | |
O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the river | F |
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breast | G |
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrow | H |
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the rest | G |
- | |
Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinely | A |
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glass | I |
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloated | J |
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alas | I |
Henry Lawson
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