Oodgeroo's poem "Time is Running Out" is representative of both her style and thematic concerns. "Colour Bar" likewise expresses these ideas. Some features of her style are rhyme, symbolic language and alliteration.

Rhyme is represented in both "Time is Running Out" and "Colour Bar". In "Time is Running Out" there is no set rhyme scheme that runs throughout the poem. In the first stanza the rhyme scheme is that every second line rhymes for example, spade and trade. In the second and third stanzas there is no rhyme scheme although in the third stanza there are lines that rhyme but there is no set pattern.

"Colour Bar" uses rhyming couplets. A rhyming couplet is when the scheme is AA, BB. This poem consists of nine rhyming couplets. Oodgeroo breaks this rhyme scheme twice in the poem. Oodgeroo does this as she wants to emphasise and make her point stronger and clearer. For example as long as brothers banned from brother hood, you still exclude. Brotherhood and exclude do......

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Title: Oodgeroo
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