Charles Harpur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDE FBFB GHGH IJKJ LJLJ MNMN OJOJ PNQN JRJR JEJE JJJJ SNSN| Where Harpur lies the rainy streams | A |
| And wet hill heads and hollows weeping | B |
| Are swift with wind and white with gleams | A |
| And hoarse with sounds of storms unsleeping | B |
| Fit grave it is for one whose song | B |
| Was tuned by tones he caught from torrents | C |
| And filled with mountain breaths and strong | B |
| Wild notes of falling forest currents | C |
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| So let him sleep the rugged hymns | D |
| And broken lights of woods above him | E |
| And let me sing how sorrow dims | D |
| The eyes of those that used to love him | E |
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| As April in the wilted wold | F |
| Turns faded eyes on splendours waning | B |
| What time the latter leaves are old | F |
| And ruin strikes the strays remaining | B |
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| So we that knew this singer dead | G |
| Whose hands attuned the harp Australian | H |
| May set the face and bow the head | G |
| And mourn his fate and fortunes alien | H |
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| The burden of a perished faith | I |
| Went sighing through his speech of sweetness | J |
| With human hints of time and death | K |
| And subtle notes of incompleteness | J |
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| But when the fiery power of youth | L |
| Had passed away and left him nameless | J |
| Serene as light and strong as truth | L |
| He lived his life untired and tameless | J |
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| And far and free this man of men | M |
| With wintry hair and wasted feature | N |
| Had fellowship with gorge and glen | M |
| And learned the loves and runes of Nature | N |
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| Strange words of wind and rhymes of rain | O |
| And whispers from the inland fountains | J |
| Are mingled in his various strain | O |
| With leafy breaths of piny mountains | J |
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| But as the undercurrents sigh | P |
| Beneath the surface of a river | N |
| The music of humanity | Q |
| Dwells in his forest psalms for ever | N |
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| No soul was he to sit on heights | J |
| And live with rocks apart and scornful | R |
| Delights of men were his delights | J |
| And common troubles made him mournful | R |
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| The flying forms of unknown powers | J |
| With lofty wonder caught and filled him | E |
| But there were days of gracious hours | J |
| When sights and sounds familiar thrilled him | E |
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| The pathos worn by wayside things | J |
| The passion found in simple faces | J |
| Struck deeper than the life of springs | J |
| Or strength of storms and sea swept places | J |
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| But now he sleeps the tired bard | S |
| The deepest sleep and lo I proffer | N |
| These tender leaves of my regard | S |
| With hands that falter as they offer | N |
Henry Kendall
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