An Australian Symphony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAAB DEDEFFGGE HIHIJJKKI LMLNOOPPO QRQRSSTTR UCUCVVWWC XJXJCCYZJ A2B2C2B2WWD2D2J UCUCCCE2E2C JWJWFFF2F2W| Not as the songs of other lands | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Her song shall be | B |
| Where dim Her purple shore line stands | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Above the sea | B |
| As erst she stood she stands alone | C |
| Her inspiration is her own | C |
| From sunlit plains to mangrove strands | A |
| Not as the songs of other lands | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Her song shall be | B |
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| O Southern Singers Rich and sweet | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Like chimes of bells | E |
| The cadence swings with rhythmic beat | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The music swells | E |
| But undertones weird mournful strong | F |
| Sweep like swift currents thro' the song | F |
| In deepest chords with passion fraught | G |
| In softest notes of sweetest thought | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp This sadness dwells | E |
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| Is this her song so weirdly strange | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp So mixed with pain | I |
| That whereso'er her poets range | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is heard the strain | I |
| Broods there no spell upon the air | J |
| But desolation and despair | J |
| No voice save Sorrow's to intrude | K |
| Upon her mountain solitude | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or sun kissed plain | I |
| - | |
| The silence and the sunshine creep | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With soft caress | M |
| O'er billowy plain and mountain steep | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And wilderness | N |
| A velvet touch a subtle breath | O |
| As sweet as love as calm as death | O |
| On earth on air so soft so fine | P |
| Till all the soul a spell divine | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O'ershadoweth | O |
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| The gray gums by the lonely creek | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The star crowned height | R |
| The wind swept plain the dim blue peak | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The cold white light | R |
| The solitude spread near and far | S |
| Around the camp fire's tiny star | S |
| The horse bell's melody remote | T |
| The curlew's melancholy note | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Across the night | R |
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| These have their message yet from these | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our songs have thrown | C |
| O'er all our Austral hills and leas | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp One sombre tone | C |
| Whence doth the mournful keynote start | V |
| From the pure depths of Nature's heart | V |
| Or from the heart of him who sings | W |
| And deems his hand upon the strings | W |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is Nature's own | C |
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| Could tints be deeper skies less dim | X |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp More soft and fair | J |
| Dappled with milk white clouds that swim | X |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In faintest air | J |
| The soft moss sleeps upon the stone | C |
| Green scrub vine traceries enthrone | C |
| The dead gray trunks and boulders red | Y |
| Roofed by the pine and carpeted | Z |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With maidenhair | J |
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| But far and near o'er each o'er all | A2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Above below | B2 |
| Hangs the great silence like a pall | C2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Softer than snow | B2 |
| Not sorrow is the spell it brings | W |
| But thoughts of calmer purer things | W |
| Like the sweet touch of hands we love | D2 |
| A woman's tenderness above | D2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A fevered brow | J |
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| These purple hills these yellow leas | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These forests lone | C |
| These mangrove shores these shimmering seas | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp This summer zone | C |
| Shall they inspire no nobler strain | C |
| Than songs of bitterness and pain | C |
| Strike her wild harp with firmer hand | E2 |
| And send her music thro' the land | E2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With loftier tone | C |
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| Her song is silence unto her | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Its mystery clings | W |
| Silence is the interpreter | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of deeper things | W |
| O for sonorous voice and strong | F |
| To change that silence into song | F |
| To give that melody release | F2 |
| Which sleeps in the deep heart of peace | F2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With folded wings | W |
George Essex Evans
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