Kretschmann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII AAJJ| Love may trace his echoing footsteps yet we never more shall meet | A |
| Rugged Kretschmann the musician plodding down a Sydney street | A |
| Never see the low broad figure massive head and shaggy mane | B |
| And the quiet furrowed features never hear his voice again | C |
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| But from many a home there rises many a note that lingering rings | D |
| Ever since his cunning fingers touched and drew it from the strings | D |
| All our land is full of noises happy phantom fields of scent | E |
| Bright with sunlit blossoms echo birdlike music where he went | E |
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| He was old and grey and weary death and he were long at grips | F |
| Evil whispers hissed behind him German to the finger tips | F |
| War's wild fury snarled about him so he gently stepped aside | G |
| Loving us and loving Germans heavy hearted and he died | G |
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| Crusted shells by ocean battered taken from the barren shore | H |
| Bear within their hearts a murmur of the sea's eternal roar | H |
| Who shall say what vital music all unheard by duller ears | I |
| Swept the soul of good old Kretschmann to his home amid the spheres | I |
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| Harmony was all his being and he held the music sweet | A |
| Welling up in baby voices beaten out by tiny feet | A |
| Still with playthings in his pockets rest and solace may he know | J |
| Welcomed gladly to the kingdom where the little children go | J |
John Le Gay Brereton
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