The Plains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| WIDE are the plains the plains that stretch to the west | A |
| An ocean of trackless waste untrodden and rude | B |
| Where an Austral sun flings fire on earth s bare breast | A |
| Brazen skies o erhanging a treeless solitude | B |
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| Wild are the plains the plains that shimmer and surge | C |
| Leagues of billowy grass like an angry sea | D |
| Bend neath the storm wind chanting its mystic dirge | C |
| The wind that knows no Lord Lord of ocean or lea | D |
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| Calm are the plains when the moon s clear beams are shed | E |
| And the wilds lie hushed all shrouded in silver grey | F |
| And Nature sinks to rest like one whose life has fled | E |
| E en as a bride lying dead in her bridal array | F |
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| Weird are the plains the plains that wait for the dawn | G |
| When the shadowy darkness strives with the sickly light | H |
| And the battle hangs in the balance finely drawn | G |
| Till the spears of morning pierce through the mail of night | H |
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| Who shall hear O Nature messages thou wouldst send | I |
| In thy desolate places far from the moving throng | J |
| Ah but the soul that loveth thee best may comprehend | I |
| The voice of the silence speaketh louder than song | J |
George Essex Evans
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