The Song And The Sigh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE FBFB| The creek went down with a broken song | A |
| 'Neath the sheoaks high | B |
| The waters carried the song along | A |
| And the oaks a sigh | B |
| - | |
| The song and the sigh went winding by | B |
| Went winding down | C |
| Circling the foot of the mountain high | B |
| And the hillside brown | C |
| - | |
| They were hushed in the swamp of the Dead Man's Crime | D |
| Where the curlews cried | E |
| But they reached the river the self same time | D |
| And there they died | E |
| - | |
| And the creek of life goes winding on | F |
| Wandering by | B |
| And bears for ever its course upon | F |
| A song and a sigh | B |
Henry Lawson
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