Heat-wave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAAB CDCDDCCD EFGFFGGF HIHJIHHI

Day after day week after burning weekA
A ruthless sun has sucked the forest dryB
Morn after anxious morn men's glances seekA
The hills hard etched against a harder skyB
Gay blossoms droop and dieB
Menace is here as day draws to its peakA
And 'mid the listless gums along the creekA
Hot little breezes sighB
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To day the threat took shape the birds were dumbC
Once more as sullen savage morning brokeD
The silence told that trembling fear had comeC
To bird and beast and all the forest folkD
One little wisp of smokeD
Far in the south behind the listless gumC
Grew to a purple pall Like some far drumC
A distant muttering brokeD
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Red noon beheld red death come shouting o'erE
These once green slopes a leaping living thingF
Touched by its breath tree after tall tree woreG
A fiery crown as tho' to mock a kingF
A ghastly blossomingF
Of sudden flame that died and was no moreG
And where a proud old giant towered of yoreG
Stood now a blackened thingF
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Fierce raved the conquering flame as demons raveH
Earth shook to thunders of the falling slainI
Brambles and bushes once so gay and braveH
Shrank back and writhed and shrieked and shrieked againJ
Like sentient things in painI
Gone from the forest all that kind spring gaveH
And now at laggard last too late to saveH
Comes soft ironic rainI

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis



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