A Dedication To The Author Of Holmby House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBB CDEDFGGD HIHIBBBI BJBJKKKJ LMGMGGGM BGBGBBBG NHOHKKKH KGKGNONG KPKPQQQP BRBRESSR GTGTKKKT GSGSSSSS

They are rhymes rudely strung with intent lessA
Of sound than of wordsB
In lands where bright blossoms are scentlessB
And songless bright birdsB
Where with fire and fierce drought on her tressesB
Insatiable Summer oppressesB
Sere woodlands and sad wildernessesB
And faint flocks and herdsB
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Where in dreariest days when all dews endC
And all winds are warmD
Wild Winter's large flood gates are loosen'dE
And floods freed by stormD
From broken up fountain heads dash onF
Dry deserts with long pent up passionG
Here rhyme was first framed without fashionG
Song shaped without formD
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Whence gather'd The locust's glad chirrupH
May furnish a staveI
The ring of a rowel and stirrupH
The wash of a waveI
The chaunt of the marsh frog in rushesB
That chimes through the pauses and hushesB
Of nightfall the torrent that gushesB
The tempests that raveI
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In the deep'ning of dawn when it dapplesB
The dusk of the skyJ
With streaks like the redd'ning of applesB
The ripening of ryeJ
To eastward when cluster by clusterK
Dim stars and dull planets that musterK
Wax wan in a world of white lustreK
That spreads far and highJ
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In the gathering of night gloom o'erhead inL
The still silent changeM
All fire flushed when forest trees reddenG
On slopes of the rangeM
When the gnarl'd knotted trunks EucalyptianG
Seem carved like weird columns EgyptianG
With curious device quaint inscriptionG
And hieroglyph strangeM
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In the Spring when the wattle gold tremblesB
'Twixt shadow and shineG
When each dew laden air draught resemblesB
A long draught of wineG
When the sky line's blue burnish'd resistanceB
Makes deeper the dreamiest distanceB
Some song in all hearts hath existenceB
Such songs have been mineG
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They came in all guises some vividN
To clasp and to keepH
Some sudden and swift as the lividO
Blue thunder flame's leapH
This swept through the first breath of cloverK
With memories renew'd to the roverK
That flash'd while the black horse turn'd overK
Before the long sleepH
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To you having cunning to colourK
A page with your penG
That through dull days and nights even dullerK
Long years ago tenG
Fair pictures in fever affordedN
I send these rude staves roughly wordedO
By one in whose brain stands recordedN
As clear now as thenG
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The great rush of grey 'Northern water'K
The green ridge of bankP
The 'sorrel' with curved sweep of quarterK
Curl'd close to clean flankP
The Royalist saddlefast squarelyQ
And where the bright uplands stretch fairlyQ
Behind beyond pistol shot barelyQ
The Roundheaded rankP
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A long launch with clinging of musclesB
And clenching of teethR
The loose doublet ripples and rustlesB
The swirl shoots beneathR
Enough In return for your garlandE
In lieu of the flowers from your far landS
Take wild growth of dreamland or starlandS
Take weeds for your wreathR
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Yet rhyme had not fail'd me for reasonG
Nor reason for rhymeT
Sweet Song had I sought you in seasonG
And found you in timeT
You beckon in your bright beauty yonderK
And I waxing fainter yet fonderK
Now weary too soon when I wanderK
Now fall when I climbT
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It matters but little in the long runG
The weak have some rightS
Some share in the race that the strong runG
The fight the strong fightS
If words that are worthless go westwardS
Yet the worst word shall be as the best wordS
In the day when all riot sweeps restwardS
In darkness or lightS

Adam Lindsay Gordon



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