Reedy River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK GMNMOPCP AQRQSTUT AVJVAWGW STXTYZIZ AA2AA2AESE YB2YB2IC2IC2

Ten miles down Reedy RiverA
A pool of water liesB
And all the year it mirrorsC
The changes in the skiesB
And in that pool's broad bosomD
Is room for all the starsE
Its bed of sand has driftedF
O'er countless rocky barsE
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Around the lower edgesG
There waves a bed of reedsH
Where water rats are hiddenI
And where the wild duck breedsH
And grassy slopes rise gentlyJ
To ridges long and lowK
Where groves of wattle flourishL
And native bluebells growK
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Beneath the granite ridgesG
The eye may just discernM
Where Rocky Creek emergesN
From deep green banks of fernM
And standing tall between themO
The grassy she oaks coolP
The hard blue tinted watersC
Before they reach the poolP
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Ten miles down Reedy RiverA
One Sunday afternoonQ
I rode with Mary CampbellR
To that broad bright lagoonQ
We left our horses grazingS
Till shadows climbed the peakT
And strolled beneath the she oaksU
On the banks of Rocky CreekT
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Then home along the riverA
That night we rode a raceV
And the moonlight lent a gloryJ
To Mary Campbell's faceV
And I pleaded for our futureA
All through that moonlight rideW
Until our weary horsesG
Drew closer side by sideW
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Ten miles from Ryan's CrossingS
And five miles below the peakT
I built a little homesteadX
On the banks of Rocky CreekT
I cleared the land and fenced itY
And ploughed the rich red loamZ
And my first crop was goldenI
When I brought my Mary homeZ
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Now still down Reedy RiverA
The grassy she oaks sighA2
And the water holes still mirrorA
The pictures in the skyA2
And over all for everA
Go sun and moon and starsE
While the golden sand is driftingS
Across the rocky barsE
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But of the hut I buildedY
There are no traces nowB2
And many rains have levelledY
The furrows of the ploughB2
And my bright days are oldenI
For the twisted branches waveC2
And the wattle blossoms goldenI
On the hill by Mary's graveC2

Henry Lawson



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