Heat-wave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAAB CDCDDCCD EFGFFGGF HIHJIHHI| Day after day week after burning week | A |
| A ruthless sun has sucked the forest dry | B |
| Morn after anxious morn men's glances seek | A |
| The hills hard etched against a harder sky | B |
| Gay blossoms droop and die | B |
| Menace is here as day draws to its peak | A |
| And 'mid the listless gums along the creek | A |
| Hot little breezes sigh | B |
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| To day the threat took shape the birds were dumb | C |
| Once more as sullen savage morning broke | D |
| The silence told that trembling fear had come | C |
| To bird and beast and all the forest folk | D |
| One little wisp of smoke | D |
| Far in the south behind the listless gum | C |
| Grew to a purple pall Like some far drum | C |
| A distant muttering broke | D |
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| Red noon beheld red death come shouting o'er | E |
| These once green slopes a leaping living thing | F |
| Touched by its breath tree after tall tree wore | G |
| A fiery crown as tho' to mock a king | F |
| A ghastly blossoming | F |
| Of sudden flame that died and was no more | G |
| And where a proud old giant towered of yore | G |
| Stood now a blackened thing | F |
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| Fierce raved the conquering flame as demons rave | H |
| Earth shook to thunders of the falling slain | I |
| Brambles and bushes once so gay and brave | H |
| Shrank back and writhed and shrieked and shrieked again | J |
| Like sentient things in pain | I |
| Gone from the forest all that kind spring gave | H |
| And now at laggard last too late to save | H |
| Comes soft ironic rain | I |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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