The Old Mile-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHGI EFEFJKLKGMGM EBFBNONOOFOFGNGN| OLD coach road West by Nor ward | A |
| Old mile tree by the track | B |
| A dead branch pointing forward | C |
| And a dead branch pointing back | B |
| And still in clear cut romans | D |
| On his hard heart he tells | E |
| The miles that were to fortune | F |
| The miles from Bowenfels | E |
| Old chief of Western timber | G |
| A famous gum you ve been | H |
| Old mile tree I remember | G |
| When all your boughs were green | I |
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| There came three boyish lovers | E |
| When golden days begun | F |
| There rode three boyish rovers | E |
| Towards the setting sun | F |
| And Fortune smiled her fairest | J |
| And Fate to these was kind | K |
| The truest best and rarest | L |
| The girls they d left behind | K |
| By the camp fire s dying ember | G |
| They dreamed of love and gold | M |
| Old mile tree I remember | G |
| When all our hearts were bold | M |
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| And when the wrecks of those days | E |
| Were sadly drifting back | B |
| There came a lonely swagman | F |
| Along the dusty track | B |
| And save for limbs that trembled | N |
| For weak and ill was he | O |
| Old mile tree he resembled | N |
| The youngest of the three | O |
| Beneath you dark and lonely | O |
| A wronged and broken man | F |
| He crouched and sobbed as only | O |
| The strong heart broken can | F |
| The darkness wrapped the timber | G |
| The stars seemed dark o erhead | N |
| Old mile tree I remember | G |
| When all green leaves seemed dead | N |
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