what type of rhyme and metre is this question using!?
Phillip Rush's "Bushwalking"
What inspires a man to climb
The mountains in the autumn-time!?
Is it just because they're there!?
Or for some idiotic dare!?
Or just to prove one's fit enough
To complete a climb that's tough!?
Each one of these, at times, is right;
But others climb for sheer delight!.
Not for the joy of aching knees,
Or scrambling over fallen trees!.
Not for the joy of carrying packs
That cause so many aching backs!.
Not for the beads of perspiration,
But for the pure inspiration
Of living pictures unsurpassed
When one gains the peak, at last!.
A city dweller cannot see
The view that lies in front of me,
As wearily I sit me down
On Acropolis' crown!.
How can one describe the thrills,
As row on row of distant hills
Unfold before my very eyes
Beneath the blue autumnal skies!?
And my mountain throne commands
Views of jeweled alpine tarns,
While patches of the brilliant snow
Reflect the sunlight's mystic glow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com