The Allisons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHCICI JGJGKLKLMGMGNGNGOGOG KGKGPCPCGQGQMGMGRSTS| ROOF and rafter and window and door | A |
| Totter and tumble in slow decay | B |
| The house by the creek is a house no more | A |
| For the Allison folk have gone away | B |
| Kept back no more by the hands of men | C |
| Though here and there bare tracts there be | D |
| The bush has come to its own again | C |
| Little by little and tree by tree | D |
| Free footed winds through the doorways pass | E |
| Whispering much in a guarded tone | F |
| Plovers call in the knee deep grass | E |
| That grows right up to the threshold stone | F |
| Silence watching the years has kept | G |
| Vigil here with a muted tongue | H |
| Since over yon threshold stone they stept | G |
| Man and woman and old and young | H |
| Brown armed women and bearded men | C |
| Love and labour and grief and mirth | I |
| Harvester Time has reaped since then | C |
| Crop after crop from the teeming earth | I |
| Nights there were when these rafters rang | J |
| Echoing song till the break of day | G |
| Ceasing not till the dawnlights sprang | J |
| Sudden and red on the mists of grey | G |
| Quick to answer to mateship's call | K |
| Rovers drovers and horsemen born | L |
| Drinkers fighters and lovers all | K |
| Laughing the law at times to scorn | L |
| Hot in anger and loyal in love | M |
| That was ever the Allison way | G |
| Kith of the hawk and kin of the dove | M |
| Wild and handsome and bold and gay | G |
| Fronting ever with even face | N |
| Drought and danger and care and need | G |
| Firm in the saddle and first in the race | N |
| That was ever the Allison breed | G |
| Known and named were the Allison girls | O |
| Far and near through the country round | G |
| Some with the noon gold in their curls | O |
| Some with the dark of midnight crowned | G |
| Dashing riders and dancers all | K |
| Bonnie of body and clean of mind | G |
| Quick to answer at pity's call | K |
| That was ever the Allison kind | G |
| Tinged and softened with sweet romance | P |
| Back in the past they rise again | C |
| Allison girls at race and dance | P |
| Queening it over the hearts of men | C |
| Slim and stalwart and sweet and bold | G |
| Mother and maid and man and boy | Q |
| Shadows move where they moved of old | G |
| Toiled and sorrowed and had their joy | Q |
| Part of the past is all their love | M |
| All the light of their fires is dead | G |
| Kith of the hawk and kin of the dove | M |
| Dove and hawk in the dark have fled | G |
| Here where the winds blow brave and blithe | R |
| Tossing and turning each sapling top | S |
| Harvester Time has swung his scythe | T |
| Cleared his swath and reaped his crop | S |
Roderic Quinn
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