Coomera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJABCD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJICD AEDE AAFA FGHG AIJI

THERE S a pretty little story with a touch of moonlit gloryA
Comes from Beenleigh on the Logan but we don t know if it s trueB
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who editC
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and BarcooD
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Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferryA
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tinE
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a driftingD
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form thereinE
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And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferryA
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless seaA
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught herF
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was heA
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O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the riverF
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breastG
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrowH
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the restG
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Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinelyA
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glassI
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloatedJ
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alas THERE S a pretty little story with a touch of moonlit gloryA
Comes from Beenleigh on the Logan but we don t know if it s trueB
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who editC
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and BarcooD
-
Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferryA
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tinE
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a driftingD
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form thereinE
-
And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferryA
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless seaA
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught herF
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was heA
-
O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the riverF
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breastG
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrowH
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the restG
-
Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinelyA
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glassI
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloatedJ
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alasI
For we scarcely dare to credit ev rything they say who editC
Those unhappy country papers twixt the ocean and BarcooD
-
Twas the man who owned the wherry at the first Coomera ferryA
Who was sitting cold and lonely while he counted out his tinE
When the cloudy curtain lifting let the moonlight on a driftingD
Boat that floated down the river with a pallid form thereinE
-
And they say that Sergeant Carey with the man who ran the ferryA
Started down to save the body from the cruel heartless seaA
And in spite of wind and water soon they reached the barque and caught herF
And they tied the boat behind them while they wondered who was heA
-
O the moon shone bright as ever as they towed him up the riverF
And they found within the pocket that was nearest to his breastG
Just an antidote for sorrow that would tide him o er the morrowH
Flask of Brandy but we d better draw the curtain o er the restG
-
Yet in case the point s too finely drawn we know we joke divinelyA
And the reader fails to see it with a magnifying glassI
We will say the man who floated while the moonlight o er him gloatedJ
Was not dead and gone to heaven he was only drunk alasI

Henry Lawson



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