Drought Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF BGBG HIHI JKJL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST| My road is fenced with the bleached white bones | A |
| And strewn with the blind white sand | B |
| Beside me a suffering dumb world moans | A |
| On the breast of a lonely land | B |
| On the rim of the world the lightnings play | C |
| The heat waves quiver and dance | D |
| And the breath of the wind is a sword to slay | C |
| And the sunbeams each a lance | D |
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| I have withered the grass where my hot hoofs tread | E |
| I have whitened the sapless trees | F |
| I have driven the faint heart rains ahead | E |
| To hide in their soft green seas | F |
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| I have bound the plains with an iron band | B |
| I have stricken the slow streams dumb | G |
| To the charge of my vanguards who shall stand | B |
| Who stay when my cohorts come | G |
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| The dust storms follow and wrap me round | H |
| The hot winds ride as a guard | I |
| Before me the fret of the swamps is bound | H |
| And the way of the wild fowl barred | I |
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| I drop the whips on the loose flanked steers | J |
| I burnt their necks with the bow | K |
| And the green hide rips and the iron sears | J |
| Where the staggering lean beasts go | L |
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| I lure the swagman out of the road | M |
| To the gleam of a phantom lake | N |
| I have laid him down I have taken his load | M |
| And he sleeps till the dead men wake | N |
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| My hurrying hoofs in the night go by | O |
| And the great flocks bleat their fear | P |
| And follow the curve of the creeks burnt dry | O |
| And the plains scorched brown and sere | P |
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| The worn men start from their sleepless rest | Q |
| With faces haggard and drawn | R |
| They cursed the red Sun into the west | Q |
| And they curse him out of the dawn | R |
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| They have carried their outposts far far out | S |
| But blade of my sword for a sign | T |
| I am the Master the dread King Drought | S |
| And the great West Land is mine | T |
William Henry Ogilvie
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