Lake Eliza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FBFGHDHE IJKJLDME NDDDODOE| THE SAND was heavy on our feet | A |
| A Christmas sky was o er us | B |
| And half a mile through dust and heat | A |
| Lake Liza lay before us | B |
| You ll have a long and heavy tramp | C |
| So said the last adviser | D |
| You can t do better than to camp | C |
| To night at Lake Eliza | E |
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| We quite forgot our aching shanks | F |
| A cheerful spirit caught us | B |
| We thought of green and shady banks | F |
| We thought of pleasant waters | G |
| Neath sky as niggard of its rain | H |
| As of his gold the miser | D |
| By mulga scrub and lignum plain | H |
| We d tramp d to Lake Eliza | E |
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| A patch to grey discoloured sand | I |
| A fringe of tufty grasses | J |
| A lonely pub in mulga scrub | K |
| Is all the stranger passes | J |
| He d pass the Lake a dozen times | L |
| And yet be none the wiser | D |
| I hope that I shall never be | M |
| As dry as Lake Eliza | E |
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| No patch of green or water seen | N |
| To cheer the weary plodder | D |
| The grass is tough as fencing wire | D |
| And just as good for fodder | D |
| And when I see it mentioned in | O |
| Some local ADVERTISER | D |
| Twill make me laugh or make me grin | O |
| The name of Lake Eliza | E |
Henry Lawson
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