Country Towns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDC EEFBGHB IIJKLM NNOPQP| Country towns with your willows and squares | A |
| And farmers bouncing on barrel mares | A |
| To public houses of yellow wood | B |
| With ' ' over their doors | C |
| And that mysterious race of Hogans | D |
| Which always keeps the General Stores | C |
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| At the School of Arts a broadsheet lies | E |
| Sprayed with the sarcasm of flies | E |
| 'The Great Golightly Family | F |
| Of Entertainers Here To night' | B |
| Dated a year and a half ago | G |
| But left there less from carelessness | H |
| Than from a wish to seem polite | B |
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| Verandas baked with musky sleep | I |
| Mulberry faces dozing deep | I |
| And dogs that lick the sunlight up | J |
| Like paste of gold or roused in vain | K |
| By far mysterious buggy wheels | L |
| Lower their ears and drowse again | M |
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| Country towns with your schooner bees | N |
| And locusts burnt in the pepper trees | N |
| Drown me with syrups arch your boughs | O |
| Find me a bench and let me snore | P |
| Till charged with ale and unconcern | Q |
| I'll think it's noon at half past four | P |
Kenneth Slessor
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