George Essex Evans

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Adrift: A Brisbane River Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ JKJK CJCJ JLJL

An amphitheatre of purple hillsA
And emerald slopes where nestling villas gleamB
Flooded with golden light that crowns and fillsA
Height vale and streamB
The clouds float motionless like isles of snowC
Set in the sapphire of the summer skyD
The river like a ribbon far belowC
Winds rippling byD
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As like a creeping snake with curve and sweepE
The languid current steals past mead and scarF
To the dark mangrove fringing on the deepE
Abreast the barF
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Slow drifts the boat past homestead town and leaG
The waters laugh and sob against the sideH
As down the murmuring river to the seaG
Dreaming I glideH
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Past meadowy marshland and gray limestone bluffI
Low mangrove fens and waste lantana heightsJ
Long reaches where the tides and winds are roughI
And sheltered bightsJ
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Now wider spread the waters to the eyesJ
Now sparser grow the homesteads scarcely seenK
Save where some roof or gaunt gray trunk may riseJ
Against the greenK
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And salter on the cheek the breezes blowC
And in a deeper key the river singsJ
And from the viewless sea move to and froC
Swift snow like wingsJ
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These are the harbingers from voyaged seasJ
Who knows what seas of thought man yet may sailL
As science slowly sifts Life s mysteriesJ
And lifts the veilL

George Essex Evans



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