The Bullfrog Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC HIHICC| Now the truce of night brings respite to the sordid care of day | A |
| And in listlessness I pace the river side | B |
| Where the solitude is wounded by no lighted window's ray | A |
| But illicit fancy will not be denied | B |
| For the darkening flat reiterates a freer life's farewell | C |
| In the long familiar knocking of a bullfrog bell | C |
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| And in reverie I see the loaded waggons slowly creep | D |
| Far across the western plains of New South Wales | E |
| With 'talking' wheels and platforms with wool ropes biting deep | D |
| And the dust of two broad countries on the vales | E |
| Till the stars take shape in patterns and through their dreamy spell | C |
| Comes the low incessant knocking of the bullfrog bell | C |
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| And the retrospection lingers bringing spiritless regret | F |
| Though the northward track is open to me still | G |
| I may count the morning muster I may track the stragglers yet | F |
| I may spell or battle onward as I will | G |
| I may wake at night to listen and know that all is well | C |
| By the reassuring answer of the bullfrog bell | C |
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| But that virile life repeated would be wearisome and trite | H |
| Since the glamour of adventure cannot last | I |
| When the future with its freshness its pulsing roseate light | H |
| Has congealed into a leaden coloured Past | I |
| So an unreturning era owns its sympathetic knell | C |
| In the melancholy knocking of that bull frog bell | C |
Joseph Furphy
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