Heat-wave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAAB CDCDDCCD EFGFFGGF HIHJIHHIDay 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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