South Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEED FGGH IJJK LMML| After the whey faced anonymity | A |
| Of river gums and scribbly gums and bush | B |
| After the rubbing and the hit of brush | C |
| You come to the South Country | A |
| As if the argument of trees were done | D |
| The doubts and quarrelling the plots and pains | E |
| All ended by these clear and gliding planes | E |
| Like an abrupt solution | D |
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| And over the flat earth of empty farms | F |
| The monstrous continent of air floats back | G |
| Coloured with rotting sunlight and the black | G |
| Bruised flesh of thunderstorms | H |
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| Air arched enormous pounding the bony ridge | I |
| Ditches and hutches with a drench of light | J |
| So huge from such infinities of height | J |
| You walk on the sky's beach | K |
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| While even the dwindled hills are small and bare | L |
| As if rebellious buried pitiful | M |
| Something below pushed up a knob of skull | M |
| Feeling its way to air | L |
Kenneth Slessor
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