On The Plains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DECEFFF GCGCHHH IJKJLLL CMCMNNN OBOBJJJ PQPQMMM LMRMSST UCUCVVV SMSMOOO BCBCWWWHalf lost in film of faintest lawn | A |
A single star in armour white | B |
Upon the dreamy heights of dawn | A |
Guards dim frontier of the night | B |
Till plumed ray | C |
And golden spray | C |
Have washed its trembling light away | C |
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The sun has peeped above the blue | D |
His level lances as they pass | E |
Have shot the dew drops thro' and thro' | C |
And dashed with rubies all the grass | E |
And silver sound | F |
Of horse bells round | F |
Floats softly o'er the jewelled ground | F |
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The sunbeam and the wanton wind | G |
Among the feathery tufts at play | C |
Sing to the earth The night is blind | G |
But we will kiss your tears away | C |
With broad'ning glow | H |
And rippling flow | H |
Adown the laughing leagues they go | H |
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The vagrant lark on wayward winds | I |
Is fluttering low is floating high | J |
No Northern trill of rapture rings | K |
Tho' the vast temple of the sky | J |
But not in vain | L |
Thy southern strain | L |
Thou brown winged angel of the plain | L |
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Here where the days are dull and grey | C |
And youth has stilled his joyous song | M |
In fancy yet I love to stray | C |
By creek and plain and billabong | M |
To the curlew's call | N |
And the noiseless fall | N |
Of the unshod hoof 'neath the gum trees tall | N |
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I hear one more the plovers peet | O |
The grey hawk wheels in dizzy height | B |
And swift beneath my horse's feet | O |
The brown quail rises in his fright | B |
And the galahs fly | J |
With pink breasts high | J |
A rosy cloud in a cloudless sky | J |
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Afar I mark the emu's run | P |
The bustard slow in motley clad | Q |
And basking in his bath of sun | P |
The brown snake on the cattle pad | Q |
And the reddish black | M |
Of a dingo's back | M |
As he loit'ring slinks on my horse's track | M |
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And now I watch with slackened rein | L |
The scattered cattle hundreds strong | M |
As slowly moving home again | R |
The lazy vanguard feeds along | M |
To the waters cool | S |
Of the tree fringed pool | S |
In the distant creek when the noon is full | T |
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Slip girth and let the old horse graze | U |
The noon grows heavy on the air | C |
Kindle the tiny camp fire's blaze | U |
And neath the shade as monarch there | C |
Take thou thine ease | V |
For hours like these | V |
A king had bartered satrapies | V |
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Here lie and watch thro' smoke wreaths cool | S |
By yon sunk log and floating wrack | M |
The emporer of the silent pool | S |
The stately heron white and black | M |
Afar from heat | O |
Upon his beat | O |
Knee deep in shallowy retreat | O |
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O mellow air O sunny light | B |
O hope and youth that pass away | C |
Inscribe in letters of delight | B |
Upon each heart one golden day | C |
To be there set | W |
When we forget | W |
There is a joy in living yet | W |
George Essex Evans
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