God's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADEEFGDHIIJJHKL LGGKMNNOOMPQQRRPSTTU UVCHHWWCXYWMMXZNNA2A 2B2C2SSD2E2C2F2G2G2W WF2F2H2H2I2I2PJ2K2K2 AAJ2L2M2M2N2N2N2O2P2 P2AAO2F2N2N2WWF2| BANNISTER who lived for gain | A |
| Counting love and mateship weak | B |
| Bannister of Coolah Creek | B |
| Once and once alone 'tis said | C |
| Bent his knees and bowed his head | C |
| Praying God to send him rain | A |
| Sheep and cattle were to him | D |
| Pounds and pence in wool and hide | E |
| That and nothing more beside | E |
| Gain and gain alone he sought | F |
| Bought and sold and sold and bought | G |
| Bannister the shrewd and grim | D |
| Drought might slay his neighbour's sheep | H |
| Leave his friends with stricken lands | I |
| Starving stock and empty hands | I |
| Driving them to ruin's brink | J |
| Not by so much as a wink | J |
| Did it cause him loss of sleep | H |
| Loving neither man nor maid | K |
| Man and maid no pity showed | L |
| When the Drought red handed strode | L |
| Through the land and spared him not | G |
| Then it was by all forgot | G |
| Bannister knelt down and prayed | K |
| Hands entreatingly out thrown | M |
| Head and shoulders bowed with care | N |
| Bannister sent up his prayer | N |
| Did that prayer include a friend | O |
| Nay but selfish to the end | O |
| For himself he prayed alone | M |
| Scarce a stone's throw from his door | P |
| Coolah Creek dry bedded lay | Q |
| Day and night and night and day | Q |
| Staring skyward stark and dumb | R |
| In its single river gum | R |
| Sang the shepherd bird no more | P |
| Praying long and low there ran | S |
| Through his mind a vision sweet | T |
| Waters singing at his feet | T |
| And his words a torrent poured | U |
| 'Open Thou Thy floodgates Lord | U |
| Lest I be a ruined man ' | V |
| Then he rose and sought his bed | C |
| Sighing as he sank to sleep | H |
| While without his famished sheep | H |
| In the darkness moaned their woe | W |
| And his cattle lowing low | W |
| Sagged with droop of eye and head | C |
| Dreams were his with splendour lit | X |
| Happy dreams of days to be | Y |
| While his prayer limped leadenly | W |
| Through cold spaces drear and lone | M |
| Till at last it reached God's throne | M |
| And God bending answered it | X |
| Hot and still the darkness was | Z |
| Hushed and hot the midnight air | N |
| Drought and death were everywhere | N |
| Thirst and hunger pain and grief | A2 |
| Stirless hung the wilted leaf | A2 |
| Motionless the brittle grass | B2 |
| Mercy pity seemed aloof | C2 |
| God remote and cold to man | S |
| When a whispering began | S |
| And the sleeper woke to hear | D2 |
| Low at first then loud and clear | E2 |
| Raindrops drumming on his roof | C2 |
| Little things began to stir | F2 |
| Little voices filled the night | G2 |
| Whispers murmurings of delight | G2 |
| Till the torrent drowned them all | W |
| In the thunder of its fall | W |
| God had answered Bannister | F2 |
| Thinking thus his troubles o'er | F2 |
| Pleased with God he slept again | H2 |
| Bannister unloved of men | H2 |
| Loved of God most surely seemed | I2 |
| Coolah Creek awakened streamed | I2 |
| Scarce a stone's throw from his door | P |
| Dreaming dreams of gain anew | J2 |
| Bannister reposed at ease | K2 |
| Hearing but sweet melodies | K2 |
| Free of loss and free of pain | A |
| Gorged and swollen by the rain | A |
| Coolah Creek a giant grew | J2 |
| Foam upon its torrent swept | L2 |
| Leaf and limb went down its flood | M2 |
| Like a beast athirst for blood | M2 |
| Through the dark it ramped and raged | N2 |
| Like a lion long encaged | N2 |
| Free at last it roared and leapt | N2 |
| Then it burst its banks and broke | O2 |
| Bar and barrier in its path | P2 |
| Shouting foaming in its wrath | P2 |
| Dreaming dreams of golden gain | A |
| Hides and tallow wool and grain | A |
| Bannister too late awoke | O2 |
| Never more to speak and stir | F2 |
| Never more to strive and hoard | N2 |
| Self and self alone his lord | N2 |
| Veins no more with life aglow | W |
| Body washing to and fro | W |
| God had answered Bannister | F2 |
Roderic Quinn
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