On The Plains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DECEFFF GCGCHHH IJKJLLL CMCMNNN OBOBJJJ PQPQMMM LMRMSST UCUCVVV SMSMOOO BCBCWWW

Half lost in film of faintest lawnA
A single star in armour whiteB
Upon the dreamy heights of dawnA
Guards dim frontier of the nightB
Till plumed rayC
And golden sprayC
Have washed its trembling light awayC
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The sun has peeped above the blueD
His level lances as they passE
Have shot the dew drops thro' and thro'C
And dashed with rubies all the grassE
And silver soundF
Of horse bells roundF
Floats softly o'er the jewelled groundF
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The sunbeam and the wanton windG
Among the feathery tufts at playC
Sing to the earth The night is blindG
But we will kiss your tears awayC
With broad'ning glowH
And rippling flowH
Adown the laughing leagues they goH
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The vagrant lark on wayward windsI
Is fluttering low is floating highJ
No Northern trill of rapture ringsK
Tho' the vast temple of the skyJ
But not in vainL
Thy southern strainL
Thou brown winged angel of the plainL
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Here where the days are dull and greyC
And youth has stilled his joyous songM
In fancy yet I love to strayC
By creek and plain and billabongM
To the curlew's callN
And the noiseless fallN
Of the unshod hoof 'neath the gum trees tallN
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I hear one more the plovers peetO
The grey hawk wheels in dizzy heightB
And swift beneath my horse's feetO
The brown quail rises in his frightB
And the galahs flyJ
With pink breasts highJ
A rosy cloud in a cloudless skyJ
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Afar I mark the emu's runP
The bustard slow in motley cladQ
And basking in his bath of sunP
The brown snake on the cattle padQ
And the reddish blackM
Of a dingo's backM
As he loit'ring slinks on my horse's trackM
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And now I watch with slackened reinL
The scattered cattle hundreds strongM
As slowly moving home againR
The lazy vanguard feeds alongM
To the waters coolS
Of the tree fringed poolS
In the distant creek when the noon is fullT
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Slip girth and let the old horse grazeU
The noon grows heavy on the airC
Kindle the tiny camp fire's blazeU
And neath the shade as monarch thereC
Take thou thine easeV
For hours like theseV
A king had bartered satrapiesV
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Here lie and watch thro' smoke wreaths coolS
By yon sunk log and floating wrackM
The emporer of the silent poolS
The stately heron white and blackM
Afar from heatO
Upon his beatO
Knee deep in shallowy retreatO
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O mellow air O sunny lightB
O hope and youth that pass awayC
Inscribe in letters of delightB
Upon each heart one golden dayC
To be there setW
When we forgetW
There is a joy in living yetW

George Essex Evans



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