The Song Of The Darling River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEDDCC FFGGHHCC IIFFJJCC CCBBCK| The skies are brass and the plains are bare | A |
| Death and ruin are everywhere | A |
| And all that is left of the last year's flood | B |
| Is a sickly stream on the grey black mud | B |
| The salt springs bubble and the quagmires quiver | C |
| And this is the dirge of the Darling River | C |
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| I rise in the drought from the Queensland rain | D |
| I fill my branches again and again | E |
| I hold my billabongs back in vain | D |
| For my life and my peoples the South Seas drain | D |
| And the land grows old and the people never | C |
| Will see the worth of the Darling River | C |
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| I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills | F |
| I turn drought ruts into rippling rills | F |
| I form fair island and glades all green | G |
| Till every bend is a sylvan scene | G |
| I have watered the barren land ten leagues wide | H |
| But in vain I have tried ah in vain I have tried | H |
| To show the sign of the Great All Giver | C |
| The Word to a people O lock your river | C |
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| I want no blistering barge aground | I |
| But racing steamers the seasons round | I |
| I want fair homes on my lonely ways | F |
| A people's love and a people's praise | F |
| And rosy children to dive and swim | J |
| And fair girls' feet in my rippling brim | J |
| And cool green forests and gardens ever' | C |
| Oh this is the hymn of the Darling River | C |
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| i The sky is brass and the scrub lands glare | C |
| Death and ruin are everywhere | C |
| Thrown high to bleach or deep in the mud | B |
| The bones lie buried by last year's flood | B |
| And the Demons dance from the Never Never | C |
| To laugh at the rise of the Darling River i | K |
Henry Lawson
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