The Stringy-bark Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDBB EEFF GGBB| There's the whitebox and pine on the ridges afar | A |
| Where the iron bark blue gum and peppermint are | A |
| There is many another but dearest to me | B |
| And the king of them all was the stringy bark tree | B |
| Then of stringy bark slabs were the walls of the hut | C |
| And from stringy bark saplings the rafters were cut | C |
| And the roof that long sheltered my brothers and me | B |
| Was of broad sheets of bark from the stringy bark tree | B |
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| And when sawn timber homes were built out in the West | D |
| Then for walls and for ceilings its wood was the best | D |
| And for shingles and palings to last while men be | B |
| There was nothing on earth like the stringy bark tree | B |
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| Far up the long gullies the timber trucks went | E |
| Over tracks that seemed hopeless by bark hut and tent | E |
| And the gaunt timber finder who rode at his ease | F |
| Led them on to a gully of stringy bark trees | F |
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| Now still from the ridges by ways that are dark | G |
| Come the shingles and palings they call stringy bark | G |
| Though you ride through long gullies a twelve months you ll see | B |
| But the old whitened stumps of the stringy bark tree | B |
Henry Lawson
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