A Riverina Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAD AEAE DFDF GAGA HIII JKJK JDJD ADAD ALAL DMDM DNDN ODOD ADAD AJAJ| Now while so many turn with love and longing | A |
| To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea | B |
| To thee we turn hearts mem'ries all belonging | A |
| Dear land of ours to thee | B |
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| West ever west with the strong sunshine marching | A |
| Beyond the mountains far from this soft coast | C |
| Until we almost see the great plains arching | A |
| In endless mirage lost | D |
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| A land of camps where seldom is sojourning | A |
| Where men like the dim fathers of our race | E |
| Halt for a time and next day unreturning | A |
| Fare ever on apace | E |
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| Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted | D |
| The wailing birds of passage in their file | F |
| And dawn sees ashes dead and embers whited | D |
| Where men had dwelt awhile | F |
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| The sun may burn the mirage shift and vanish | G |
| And fade and glare by turns along the sky | A |
| The haze of heat may all the distance banish | G |
| To the uncaring eye | A |
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| By speech or tongue of bird or brute unbroken | H |
| Silence may brood upon the lifeless plain | I |
| Nor any sign far off or near betoken | I |
| Man in this vast domain | I |
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| Though tender grace the landscape lacks too spacious | J |
| Impassive silent lonely to be fair | K |
| Their kindness swiftly comes more soft and gracious | J |
| Who live or tarry there | K |
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| All that he has in camp or homestead proffers | J |
| To stranger guest at once a stranger host | D |
| Proudest to see accepted what he offers | J |
| Given without a boast | D |
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| Pass if you can the drover's cattle stringing | A |
| Along the miles of the wide travelled road | D |
| Without a challenge through the hot dust ringing | A |
| Kind though abrupt the mode | D |
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| A cloud of dust where polish'd wheels are flashing | A |
| Passes along and in it rolls the mail | L |
| Comes from the box as on the coach goes dashing | A |
| The lonely driver's hail | L |
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| Or in the track a station youngster mounted | D |
| Sits in his saddle smoking for a spell | M |
| Rides a while onward then his news recounted | D |
| Parts with a brief farewell | M |
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| To day these plains may seem a face defiant | D |
| Turn'd to a mortal foe yet scorning fear | N |
| As when with heaven at war an Earth born giant | D |
| Saw the Olympian near | N |
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| Come yet again No child's fair face is sweeter | O |
| With young delight than this cool blooming land | D |
| Silent no more for songs than wings are fleeter | O |
| No blaze but sunshine bland | D |
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| Thus in her likeness that strange nature moulding | A |
| Makes man as moody sad and savage too | D |
| Yet in his heart like her a passion holding | A |
| Unselfish kind and true | D |
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| Therefore while many turn with love and longing | A |
| To wan lands lying on the grey North Sea | J |
| To day possessed by other mem'ries thronging | A |
| We turn wild West to thee | J |
Thomas William Heney
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