Adrift: A Brisbane River Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ JKJK CJCJ JLJL| An amphitheatre of purple hills | A |
| And emerald slopes where nestling villas gleam | B |
| Flooded with golden light that crowns and fills | A |
| Height vale and stream | B |
| The clouds float motionless like isles of snow | C |
| Set in the sapphire of the summer sky | D |
| The river like a ribbon far below | C |
| Winds rippling by | D |
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| As like a creeping snake with curve and sweep | E |
| The languid current steals past mead and scar | F |
| To the dark mangrove fringing on the deep | E |
| Abreast the bar | F |
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| Slow drifts the boat past homestead town and lea | G |
| The waters laugh and sob against the side | H |
| As down the murmuring river to the sea | G |
| Dreaming I glide | H |
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| Past meadowy marshland and gray limestone bluff | I |
| Low mangrove fens and waste lantana heights | J |
| Long reaches where the tides and winds are rough | I |
| And sheltered bights | J |
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| Now wider spread the waters to the eyes | J |
| Now sparser grow the homesteads scarcely seen | K |
| Save where some roof or gaunt gray trunk may rise | J |
| Against the green | K |
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| And salter on the cheek the breezes blow | C |
| And in a deeper key the river sings | J |
| And from the viewless sea move to and fro | C |
| Swift snow like wings | J |
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| These are the harbingers from voyaged seas | J |
| Who knows what seas of thought man yet may sail | L |
| As science slowly sifts Life s mysteries | J |
| And lifts the veil | L |
George Essex Evans
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