Bullocky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GAHA IJKJ LMNM DOPO QRSR| Beside his heavy shouldered team | A |
| thirsty with drought and chilled with rain | B |
| he weathered all the striding years | C |
| till they ran widdershins in his brain | B |
| - | |
| Till the long solitary tracks | D |
| etched deeper with each lurching load | E |
| were populous before his eyes | F |
| and fiends and angels used his road | E |
| - | |
| All the long straining journey grew | G |
| a mad apocalyptic dream | A |
| and he old Moses and the slaves | H |
| his suffering and stubborn team | A |
| - | |
| Then in his evening camp beneath | I |
| the half light pillars of the trees | J |
| he filled the steepled cone of night | K |
| with shouted prayers and prophecies | J |
| - | |
| While past the campfire's crimson ring | L |
| the star struck darkness cupped him round | M |
| and centuries of cattle bells | N |
| rang with their sweet uneasy sound | M |
| - | |
| Grass is across the wagon tracks | D |
| and plough strikes bone beneath the grass | O |
| and vineyards cover all the slopes | P |
| where the dead teams were used to pass | O |
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| O vine grow close upon that bone | Q |
| and hold it with your rooted hand | R |
| The prophet Moses feeds the grape | S |
| and fruitful is the Promised Land | R |
Judith Wright
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