The Country Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBDEBBFGHHBBIIBJ HHIIHHKK| EARTH which has known so many passages | A |
| Of April air so many marriages | B |
| Of strange and lovely atoms breeding light | C |
| Never may find again that lost delight | C |
| In the sharp sky the frosty deepnesses | B |
| There are still birds to barb the silences | B |
| There are still fields to meet the morning on | D |
| But those who made them beautiful have gone | E |
| Diamonds are flung by other smoking springs | B |
| But where is he that cropped their offerings | B |
| The pick purse of enchantments riding by | F |
| Whistling his 'Go and Be Hanged That's Twice Good bye' | G |
| Who such a frolic pomp of blessing made | H |
| To kiss a little pretty dairymaid | H |
| And country wives with bare and earth burnt knees | B |
| And boys with beer and smiles from balconies | B |
| The greensleeve girl apprentice equerry | I |
| Tending great men with slant eye mockery | I |
| 'Then Mr Sam says Riding's hot he says | B |
| Tasting their ale and waving twopences ' | J |
| Into one gaze they swam a moment swirled | H |
| One fiery paintbox of the body's world | H |
| Into Sam's eye that flying bushranger | I |
| Swinging their torches for earth's voyager | I |
| And how the blood sang and the senses leapt | H |
| And cells that under tents of horn had slept | H |
| Rose dancing at the black and faceless bale | K |
| Of gallows flesh that had not girl nor ale | K |
Kenneth Slessor
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