Skeleton Flat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAH IJIJEKEK LMLMAFAF| HERE S never a bough to be tossed in the breeze | A |
| For it s long since the forest was green | B |
| And round all the trunks of the naked white trees | A |
| The marks of the death ring are seen | B |
| The solemn faced bear who had looked on the blacks | C |
| From his home with the possum and cat | D |
| Blinked anxiously down when the death dealing axe | C |
| Was ring barking Skeleton Flat | D |
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| And strange to be seen in the evergreen south | E |
| The gums for ten summers have stood | F |
| And dried in the terrible furnace of drouth | E |
| Till harder than flint is the wood | F |
| Now tall grows the grass at the roots of the trees | A |
| But a beautiful forest it cost | G |
| And the heart of the splitter is sad when he sees | A |
| And thinks of the timber that s lost | H |
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| Here flies through a sky that is glazed the black crow | I |
| And the eagle goes circling around | J |
| Or evilly sits on a branch that is low | I |
| With his gleaming black eye on the ground | J |
| And loudly the jackasses chuckle in mirth | E |
| When a comrade flies upward until | K |
| Like a fragment of thread in its height from the earth | E |
| Is the writhing brown snake in his bill | K |
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| O fit for the place are the curlews that wail | L |
| On the banks of a distant lagoon | M |
| Or round by the swamps that are shallow and pale | L |
| In the light of the nights of the moon | M |
| When glist ning and white are the frost covered trees | A |
| That dead for ten summers have stood | F |
| And the stranger benighted might fancy he sees | A |
| The skeleton wraith of a wood | F |
Henry Lawson
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