Melba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJCCCC| Born to the sun and smiling skies | A |
| And bird songs to the morning flung | B |
| To joyousness that never dies | A |
| In hearts that stay for ever young | B |
| 'Twas here beneath the shining trees | C |
| She paused to learn the magic rune | D |
| Of those unlaboured ecstasies | C |
| That keep a weary world in tune | D |
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| The grey thrush fluting by the nest | E |
| The golden whistler trilling high | F |
| Their gifts she captured and expressed | E |
| In magic notes that may not die | F |
| Then to the old grey world she gave | G |
| Exultingly at Art's command | H |
| In songs that live beyond the grave | G |
| Her message from a bright young land | H |
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| With sheer exuberance of Art | I |
| Won from that happy feathered throng | J |
| She poured our sunshine from her heart | I |
| Translated into magic song | J |
| And tho' alas the singer dies | C |
| Who bade old continents rejoice | C |
| Not ever from our sunlit skies | C |
| Departs the memory of her voice | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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