The Paroo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBBDBDBEBEB FBFBBBBBBBBBGBGBHIHI JBJB KLKMBMB| It was a week from Christmas time | A |
| As near as I remember | B |
| And half a year since in the rear | C |
| We'd left the Darling timber | B |
| The track was hot and more than drear | B |
| The day dragged out for ever | B |
| But now we knew that we were near | B |
| Our camp the Paroo River | B |
| With blighted eyes and blistered feet | D |
| With stomachs out of order | B |
| Half mad with flies and dust and heat | D |
| We'd crossed the Queensland border | B |
| I longed to hear a stream go by | E |
| And see the circles quiver | B |
| I longed to lay me down and die | E |
| That night on Paroo River | B |
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| The nose bags heavy on each chest | F |
| God bless one kindly squatter | B |
| With grateful weight our hearts they pressed | F |
| We only wanted water | B |
| The sun was setting in a spray | B |
| Of colour like a liver | B |
| We'd fondly hoped to camp and stay | B |
| That night by Paroo River | B |
| A cloud was on my mate's broad brow | B |
| And once I heard him mutter | B |
| 'What price the good old Darling now | B |
| God bless that grand old gutter | B |
| And then he stopped and slowly said | G |
| In tones that made me shiver | B |
| It cannot well be on ahead | G |
| I think we've crossed the river | B |
| But soon we saw a strip of ground | H |
| Beside the track we followed | I |
| No damper than the surface round | H |
| But just a little hollowed | I |
| His brow assumed a thoughtful frown | J |
| This speech did he deliver | B |
| I wonder if we'd best go down | J |
| Or up the blessed river | B |
| - | |
| But where said I 's the blooming stream ' | - |
| And he replied 'we're at it | K |
| I stood awhile as in a dream | L |
| Great Scott I cried is that it | K |
| Why that is some old bridle track | M |
| He chuckled Well I never | B |
| It's plain you've never been Out Back | M |
| This is the Paroo River | B |
Henry Lawson
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