The Australian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG HI JJ KK LM NN OO PP QQ RR SS TT UU VV WW XX YY ZZ A2A2 B2B2 C2C2| ONCE more this Autumn earth is ripe | A |
| Parturient of another type | A |
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| While with the Past old nations merge | B |
| His foot is on the Future s verge | B |
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| They watch him as they huddle pent | C |
| Striding a spacious continent | D |
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| Above the level desert s marge | E |
| Looming in his aloofness large | E |
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| No flower with fragile sweetness graced | F |
| A lank weed wrestling with the waste | F |
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| Pallid of face and gaunt of limb | G |
| The sweetness withered out of him | G |
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| Sombre indomitable wan | H |
| The juices dried the glad youth gone | I |
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| A little weary from his birth | J |
| His laugh the spectre of a mirth | J |
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| Bitter beneath a bitter sky | K |
| To Nature he has no reply | K |
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| Wanton perhaps and cruel Yes | L |
| Is not his sun more merciless | M |
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| So drab and neutral is his day | N |
| He finds a splendour in the grey | N |
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| And from his life s monotony | O |
| He draws a dreary melody | O |
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| When earth so poor a banquet makes | P |
| His pleasures at a gulp he takes | P |
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| The feast is his to the last crumb | Q |
| Drink while he can the drought will come | Q |
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| His heart a sudden tropic flower | R |
| He loves and loathes within an hour | R |
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| Yet you who by the pools abide | S |
| Judge not the man who swerves aside | S |
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| He sees beyond your hazy fears | T |
| He roads the desert of the years | T |
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| Rearing his cities in the sand | U |
| He builds where even God has banned | U |
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| With green a continent he crowns | V |
| And stars a wilderness with towns | V |
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| With paths the distances he snares | W |
| His gyves of steel the great plain wears | W |
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| A child who takes a world for toy | X |
| To build a nation or destroy | X |
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| His childish features frozen stern | Y |
| His manhood s task he has to learn | Y |
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| From feeble tribes to federate | Z |
| One white and peace encompassed State | Z |
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| But if there be no goal to reach | A2 |
| The track lies open dawns beseech | A2 |
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| Enough that he lay down his load | B2 |
| A little farther on the road | B2 |
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| So toward undreamt of destinies | C2 |
| He slouches down the centuries | C2 |
Arthur Henry Adams
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