The Land Of The Dawning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDCDEEFEFEGEG EEHEHEIEI BBJBJKLKL EEEEEMDMD| Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst | A |
| By tropic breezes kissed | A |
| A summer land in watery wastes forlorn | B |
| Her ranges floating in the snow white mist | A |
| And gold of early morn | B |
| The tides of Empire ebbed and flowed afar | C |
| The thrones of nations in the dust were hurled | D |
| Silent she slept beneath the morning star | C |
| A virgin world | D |
| Love Birth and Death the stress of Age and Race | E |
| Changed not her maiden face | E |
| Unstocked her pastures and untilled her soil | F |
| She who for labour builds a throne apace | E |
| Saw not her people toil | F |
| Down the low valleys up the stormy steeps | E |
| Careless they roamed at will the land was free | G |
| From desert stark to where the mangrove sleeps | E |
| Upon the sea | G |
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| There dropped no anchor at her river bars | E |
| Beneath the quiet stars | E |
| No wandering sail her silent waters swept | H |
| By waste and scrub o er plain and rocky scars | E |
| No alien footstep crept | H |
| In feathery billows of her grassy seas | E |
| Some lonely mountain stretched its capes of blue | I |
| Only the heavens above her and the breeze | E |
| Her secrets knew | I |
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| Where the wild grass grew rank on slopes forlorn | B |
| Rise fields of yellow corn | B |
| And purple lucerne bloom makes sweet the air | J |
| The sullen mountain lost in mists of morn | B |
| Its golden heart lays bare | J |
| Spoils of her pastures crowd full many a mart | K |
| Her glittering treasure calls to many a land | L |
| She has no secrets for the daring heart | K |
| And strong brown hand | L |
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| The smoke and thunder of her cities rise | E |
| To the same careless skies | E |
| Her arteries thread the same wide sunlit leas | E |
| Her fleets stretch forth their wings of enterprise | E |
| O er the same summer seas | E |
| She to the Nations cries No Past no Fame | M |
| No Memories quicken round my flag unfurled | D |
| The mightier therefore shall I carve my name | M |
| Upon the World | D |
George Essex Evans
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