Epode. "on The Ranges, Queensland." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGHHH IJKI LMNL OPPO HQQH RSSR HIIH TUUT VWWV XIYX ZA2A2Z| Beyond the night down o'er the labouring East | A |
| I see light's harbinger of dawn released | A |
| Upon the false gleam of the ante dawn | B |
| Lo the fair heaven of day pursuing morn | C |
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| Beyond the lampless sleep and perishing death | D |
| That hold my heart I feel my new life's breath | D |
| I see the face my spirit shape shall have | E |
| When this frail clay and dust have fled the grave | F |
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| Beyond the night the death of doubt defeat | G |
| Rise dawn and morn and life with light doth meet | G |
| For the great Cause too sure as the sun yon ray | H |
| Shoots up to strike the threatening clouds and say | H |
| I come and with me comes the victorious Day | H |
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| When I was young the muse I worshipped took me | I |
| Fearless a lonely heart to look on men | J |
| 'Tis yours said she to paint this show of them | K |
| Even as they are Then smiling she forsook me | I |
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| Wherefore with passionate patience I withdrew | L |
| With eyes from which all loves hates hopes and fears | M |
| Joys aureole and the blinding sheen of tears | N |
| Were purged away And what I saw I drew | L |
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| Then as I worked remote serene alone | O |
| A child girl came to me and touched my cheek | P |
| And lo her lips were pale her limbs were weak | P |
| Her eyes had thirst's desire and hunger's moan | O |
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| She said I am the soul of this sad day | H |
| Where thousands toil and suffer hideous Crime | Q |
| Where units rob and mock the empty time | Q |
| With revel and rank prayer and deaths display | H |
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| I said O child how shall I leave my songs | R |
| My songs and tales the warp and subtle woof | S |
| Of this great work and web in your behoof | S |
| To strive and passionately sing of wrongs | R |
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| Child is it nothing that I here fulfil | H |
| My heart and soul that I may look and see | I |
| Where Homer bends and Shakspere smiles on me | I |
| And Goethe praises the unswerving will | H |
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| She hung her head and straight without a word | T |
| Passed from me And I raised my conscious face | U |
| To where in beauteous power in her place | U |
| She stood the muse my muse and watched and heard | T |
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| Her proud and marble brow was faintly flushed | V |
| Upon her flawless lips and in her eyes | W |
| A mild light flickered as the young sunrise | W |
| Glad sacred terrible serene and hushed | V |
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| Then I cried out and rose with pure wrath wild | X |
| Desperate with hatred of Fate's slavery | I |
| And this cold cruel demon With that cry | Y |
| I left her and sought out the piteous child | X |
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| Darling 'tis nothing that I shed and weep | Z |
| These tears of fire that wither all the heart | A2 |
| These bloody sweats that drain and sear and smart | A2 |
| I love you and you'll kiss me when I sleep | Z |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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