Beyond Kerguelen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACADAD AEAEAFAFAGAG AHAHIJIJIKIK ALALAMAMANAN AOAOIAIAIPIP AQAQARARIAIA ASASATATABAB| DOWN in the South by the waste without sail on it | A |
| Far from the zone of the blossom and tree | B |
| Lieth with winter and whirlwind and wail on it | A |
| Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea | B |
| Weird is the mist from the summit to base of it | A |
| Sun of its heaven is wizened and grey | C |
| Phantom of light is the light on the face of it | A |
| Never is night on it never is day | C |
| Here is the shore without flower or bird on it | A |
| Here is no litany sweet of the springs | D |
| Only the haughty harsh thunder is heard on it | A |
| Only the storm with a roar in its wings | D |
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| Shadow of moon is the moon in the sky of it | A |
| Wan as the face of a wizard and far | E |
| Never there shines from the firmament high of it | A |
| Grace of the planet or glory of star | E |
| All the year round in the place of white days on it | A |
| All the year round where there never is night | F |
| Lies a great sinister bitter blind haze on it | A |
| Growth that is neither of darkness nor light | F |
| Wild is the cry of the sea in the caves by it | A |
| Sea that is smitten by spears of the snow | G |
| Desolate songs are the songs of the waves by it | A |
| Down in the South where the ships never go | G |
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| Storm from the Pole is the singer that sings to it | A |
| Hymns of the land at the planet s grey verge | H |
| Thunder discloses dark wonderful things to it | A |
| Thunder and rain and the dolorous surge | H |
| Hills with no hope of a wing or a leaf on them | I |
| Scarred with the chronicles written by flame | J |
| Stare through the gloom of inscrutable grief on them | I |
| Down on the horns of the gulfs without name | J |
| Cliffs with the records of fierce flying fires on them | I |
| Loom over perilous pits of eclipse | K |
| Alps with anathema stamped in the spires on them | I |
| Out by the wave with a curse on its lips | K |
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| Never is sign of soft beautiful green on it | A |
| Never the colour the glory of rose | L |
| Neither the fountain nor river is seen on it | A |
| Naked its crags are and barren its snows | L |
| Blue as the face of the drowned is the shore of it | A |
| Shore with the capes of indefinite cave | M |
| Strange is the voice of its wind and the roar of it | A |
| Startles the mountain and hushes the wave | M |
| Out to the South and away to the north of it | A |
| Spectral and sad are the spaces untold | N |
| All the year round a great cry goeth forth of it | A |
| Sob of this leper of lands in the cold | N |
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| No man hath stood all its bleak bitter years on it | A |
| Fall of a foot on its wastes is unknown | O |
| Only the sound of the hurricane s spears on it | A |
| Breaks with the shout from the uttermost zone | O |
| Blind are its bays with the shadow of bale on them | I |
| Storms of the nadir their rocks have uphurled | A |
| Earthquake hath registered deeply its tale on them | I |
| Tale of distress from the dawn of the world | A |
| There are the gaps with the surges that seethe in them | I |
| Gaps in whose jaws is a menace that glares | P |
| There the wan reefs with the merciless teeth in them | I |
| Gleam on a chaos that startles and scares | P |
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| Back in the dawn of this beautiful sphere on it | A |
| Land of the dolorous desolate face | Q |
| Beamed the blue day and the bountiful year on it | A |
| Fostered the leaf and the blossom of grace | Q |
| Grand were the lights of its midsummer noon on it | A |
| Mornings of majesty shone on its seas | R |
| Glitter of star and the glory of moon on it | A |
| Fell in the march of the musical breeze | R |
| Valleys and hills with the whisper of wing in them | I |
| Dells of the daffodil spaces impearled | A |
| Flowered and flashed with the splendour of Spring in them | I |
| Back in the morn of this wonderful world | A |
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| Soft were the words that the thunder then said to it | A |
| Said to this lustre of emerald plain | S |
| Sun brought the yellow the green and the red to it | A |
| Sweet were the songs of its silvery rain | S |
| Voices of water and wind in the bays of it | A |
| Lingered and lulled like the psalm of a dream | T |
| Fair were the nights and effulgent the days of it | A |
| Moon was in shadow and shade in the beam | T |
| Summer s chief throne was the marvellous coast of it | A |
| Home of the Spring was its luminous lea | B |
| Garden of glitter but only the ghost of it | A |
| Moans in the South by the ghost of a sea | B |
Henry Kendall
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