Drought Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EEFGHH IIJJEEE| That time of drought the embered air | A |
| burned to the roots of timber and grass | B |
| The crackling lime scrub would not bear | A |
| and Mooni Creek was sand that year | C |
| The dingo's cry was strange to hear | D |
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| I heard the dingoes cry | E |
| in the scrub on the Thirty mile Dry | E |
| I saw the wedgetail take his fill | F |
| perching on the seething skull | G |
| I saw the eel wither where he curled | H |
| in the last blood drop of a spent world | H |
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| I heard the bone whisper in the hide | I |
| of the big red horse that lay where he died | I |
| Prop that horse up make him stand | J |
| hoofs turned down in the bitter sand | J |
| make him stand at the gate of the Thirty mile Dry | E |
| Turn this way and you will die | E |
| and strange and loud was the dingoes' cry | E |
Judith Wright
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