David Mckee Wright

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In The Moonlight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFFDD GGFFDD HHBBDD AABCDD

The moon is bright and the winds are laid and the river is roaring byA
Orion swings with his belted lights low down in the western skyA
North and south from the mountain gorge to the heart of the silver plainB
There s many an eye will see no sleep till the east grows bright againC
There s many a hand will toil to night from the centre down to the seaD
And I m far from the men I used to know and my love is far from meD
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Where the broad flood eddies the dredge is moored to the beach of shingle whiteE
And the straining cable whips the stream in a spray of silver lightE
The groaning buckets bear their load and the engine throbs awayF
And the wash pours red on the turning screen that knows not night or dayF
For there s many an ounce of gold to save from the gorge to the shining seaD
And there s many a league of the bare brown hills between my love and meD
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Where the lines of gorse are parched and dry and the sheaves are small and thinG
The engine beats and the combine sings to the drays that are leading inG
For they re thrashing out of the stook to night and the plain is as bright as dayF
And the fork tines flash as the sheaves are turned on the frame of the one horse drayF
For many a hand will toil to night from the mountains down to the seaD
But I m far from the lips of the girl I love and the heart that beats for meD
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The trappers are out on the hills to night and the sickly lantern shineH
Is mocking the gleam of the silver moon in the scrub on the long trap lineH
The tallies are big on the rock strewn spur and the rattling clink of the chainB
Comes weirdly mixed from the moon bright hill with the whistling shriek of painB
For many a hand will toil to night where the tussocks are waving freeD
But it s over the hills and over the plain to the heart that beats for meD
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The stars are bright and the night is still and the river is singing byA
And many a face is upward turned to gaze at the moon s bright eyeA
North and south from the forest deeps to the heart of the silver plainB
There s many an eye will see no sleep till the east grows bright againC
There s many a hand will toil to night by shining land and seaD
O moonlight bear my message of love to the heart that beats for meD

David Mckee Wright



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