The Lonely Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBB EEFFBB EEGGBB HHIIBB| Where the ironbarks are hanging leaves disconsolate and pale | A |
| Where the wild vines o'er the ranges their spilt cream of blossom trail | A |
| By the door of the bark humpey by the rotting blood wood gates | B |
| On the river bound selection there a lonely woman waits | B |
| Waits and watches gilded sunrise glow behind the mountain peak | C |
| Hears the water hens' shrill piping in the rushes by the creek | C |
| And by the sullen stormy sunsets when the anxious cattle call | D |
| Sees the everlasting gum trees closing round her like a wall | D |
| With the hunger of her bosom notes the wild birds seek their mates | B |
| All alone and heavy hearted there the lonely woman waits | B |
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| Where the tall brown city buildings loom against a cloud flecked sky | E |
| Where along the curving tramlines brightly varnished cars rush by | E |
| Where the call of petty traders echoes down the dusty street | F |
| And forever comes the beating of the many passing feet | F |
| Where the bamboo reeds are whispering by the green park's iron gates | B |
| By the muslin curtained window there a lonely woman waits | B |
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| Where the white caps lash the sea wall and the great waves thunder by | E |
| Where the grey rains sweep the beaches underneath a sodden sky | E |
| Where the swift winged gull flies landward and the fisher bides at home | G |
| When the long Pacific reaches are a seething stretch of foam | G |
| Where the empty boat drifts seawards by the ocean's sand flanked gates | B |
| In the weather boarded cottage there a lonely woman waits | B |
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| Where the river boats are calling where the railway engine shrieks | H |
| Or where only wild bird liltings echo from the reedy creeks | H |
| Where the grey waves grieve to landward and a wet wind beats the seas | I |
| Or where pearl white moths flit slowly through the dropping wattle trees | I |
| By the high verandah pillars by the rotting bloodwood gates | B |
| Crowded town or dreary seaboard everywhere some woman waits | B |
M. Forrest
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