The Blue Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKM| Above the ashes straight and tall | A |
| Through ferns with moisture dripping | B |
| I climb beneath the sandstone wall | A |
| My feet on mosses slipping | B |
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| Like ramparts round the valley's edge | C |
| The tinted cliffs are standing | B |
| With many a broken wall and ledge | C |
| And many a rocky landing | B |
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| And round about their rugged feet | D |
| Deep ferny dells are hidden | E |
| In shadowed depths whence dust and heat | D |
| Are banished and forbidden | E |
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| The stream that crooning to itself | F |
| Comes down a tireless rover | G |
| Flows calmly to the rocky shelf | F |
| And there leaps bravely over | G |
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| Now pouring down now lost in spray | H |
| When mountain breezes sally | I |
| The water strikes the rock midway | H |
| And leaps into the valley | I |
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| Now in the west the colours change | J |
| The blue with crimson blending | B |
| Behind the far Dividing Range | J |
| The sun is fast descending | B |
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| And mellowed day comes o'er the place | K |
| And softens ragged edges | L |
| The rising moon's great placid face | K |
| Looks gravely o'er the ledges | M |
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