Australia Vindex Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF DADA GHGH DIDI DJDJ KDKD DIDI LMLM NONO PDPD| Who cometh from fields of the south | A |
| With raiment of weeping and woe | B |
| And a cry of the heart in her mouth | A |
| And a step that is muffled and slow | B |
| Her paths are the paths of the sun | C |
| Her house is a beautiful light | D |
| But she boweth her head and is one | C |
| With the daughters of dolour and night | D |
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| She is fairer than flowers of love | E |
| She is fiercer than wind driven flame | F |
| And God from His thunders above | E |
| Hath smitten the soul of her shame | F |
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| She saith to the bloody one curst | D |
| With the fever of evil she saith | A |
| My sorrow shall strangle thee first | D |
| With an agony wilder than death | A |
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| My sorrow shall hack at thy life | G |
| Thou shalt wrestle with wraiths of thy sin | H |
| And sleep on a pillow of strife | G |
| With demons without and within | H |
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| She whispers He came to the land | D |
| A lord and a lover of me | I |
| A son of the waves with a hand | D |
| As fearless and frank as the sea | I |
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| On the shores of the stranger he stood | D |
| With the sweetness of youth on his face | J |
| Till there started a fiend from the wood | D |
| Who stabbed at the peace of the place | J |
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| Because of the dastardly thing | K |
| Thou hast done in the sight of the day | D |
| All horrors that sicken and sting | K |
| Shall make thee for ever their prey | D |
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| Because of the beautiful trust | D |
| Destroyed by a devil like thee | I |
| Thy bed shall be low in the dust | D |
| And my heel as a shackle shall be | I |
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| Because and she mutters it deep | L |
| Who curseth the coward in chains | M |
| Thou hast stricken and murdered our sleep | L |
| Thy sleep shall be perished with pains | M |
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| Thy sleep shall be broken and sharp | N |
| And filled with fierce spasms and dreams | O |
| And shadow shall haunt thee and harp | N |
| On hellish and horrible themes | O |
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| I will set my right hand on thy neck | P |
| And my foot on thy body nor bate | D |
| Till thy name shall become as a wreck | P |
| And a byword for hisses and hate | D |
Henry Kendall
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