Reedy River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK GMNMOPCP AQRQSTUT AVJVAWGW STXTYZIZ AA2AA2AESE YB2YB2IC2IC2Ten miles down Reedy River | A |
A pool of water lies | B |
And all the year it mirrors | C |
The changes in the skies | B |
And in that pool's broad bosom | D |
Is room for all the stars | E |
Its bed of sand has drifted | F |
O'er countless rocky bars | E |
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Around the lower edges | G |
There waves a bed of reeds | H |
Where water rats are hidden | I |
And where the wild duck breeds | H |
And grassy slopes rise gently | J |
To ridges long and low | K |
Where groves of wattle flourish | L |
And native bluebells grow | K |
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Beneath the granite ridges | G |
The eye may just discern | M |
Where Rocky Creek emerges | N |
From deep green banks of fern | M |
And standing tall between them | O |
The grassy she oaks cool | P |
The hard blue tinted waters | C |
Before they reach the pool | P |
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Ten miles down Reedy River | A |
One Sunday afternoon | Q |
I rode with Mary Campbell | R |
To that broad bright lagoon | Q |
We left our horses grazing | S |
Till shadows climbed the peak | T |
And strolled beneath the she oaks | U |
On the banks of Rocky Creek | T |
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Then home along the river | A |
That night we rode a race | V |
And the moonlight lent a glory | J |
To Mary Campbell's face | V |
And I pleaded for our future | A |
All through that moonlight ride | W |
Until our weary horses | G |
Drew closer side by side | W |
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Ten miles from Ryan's Crossing | S |
And five miles below the peak | T |
I built a little homestead | X |
On the banks of Rocky Creek | T |
I cleared the land and fenced it | Y |
And ploughed the rich red loam | Z |
And my first crop was golden | I |
When I brought my Mary home | Z |
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Now still down Reedy River | A |
The grassy she oaks sigh | A2 |
And the water holes still mirror | A |
The pictures in the sky | A2 |
And over all for ever | A |
Go sun and moon and stars | E |
While the golden sand is drifting | S |
Across the rocky bars | E |
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But of the hut I builded | Y |
There are no traces now | B2 |
And many rains have levelled | Y |
The furrows of the plough | B2 |
And my bright days are olden | I |
For the twisted branches wave | C2 |
And the wattle blossoms golden | I |
On the hill by Mary's grave | C2 |
Henry Lawson
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