Coogee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNOPPQQ RRSSTTUU VVWWXYZZ| Sing the song of wave worn Coogee Coogee in the distance white | A |
| With its jags and points disrupted gaps and fractures fringed with light | A |
| Haunt of gledes and restless plovers of the melancholy wail | B |
| Ever lending deeper pathos to the melancholy gale | B |
| There my brothers down the fissures chasms deep and wan and wild | C |
| Grows the sea bloom one that blushes like a shrinking fair blind child | C |
| And amongst the oozing forelands many a glad green rock vine runs | D |
| Getting ease on earthy ledges sheltered from December suns | D |
| Often when a gusty morning rising cold and grey and strange | E |
| Lifts its face from watery spaces vistas full with cloudy change | E |
| Bearing up a gloomy burden which anon begins to wane | F |
| Fading in the sudden shadow of a dark determined rain | F |
| Do I seek an eastern window so to watch the breakers beat | G |
| Round the steadfast crags of Coogee dim with drifts of driving sleet | G |
| Hearing hollow mournful noises sweeping down a solemn shore | H |
| While the grim sea caves are tideless and the storm strives at their core | H |
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| Often when the floating vapours fill the silent autumn leas | I |
| Dreaming mem ries fall like moonlight over silver sleeping seas | I |
| Youth and I and Love together Other times and other themes | J |
| Come to me unsung unwept for through the faded evening gleams | J |
| Come to me and touch me mutely I that looked and longed so well | K |
| Shall I look and yet forget them who may know or who foretell | K |
| Though the southern wind roams shadowed with its immemorial grief | L |
| Where the frosty wings of Winter leave their whiteness on the leaf | L |
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| Friend of mine beyond the waters here and here these perished days | M |
| Haunt me with their sweet dead faces and their old divided ways | M |
| You that helped and you that loved me take this song and when you read | N |
| Let the lost things come about you set your thoughts and hear and heed | O |
| Time has laid his burden on us we who wear our manhood now | P |
| We would be the boys we have been free of heart and bright of brow | P |
| Be the boys for just an hour with the splendour and the speech | Q |
| Of thy lights and thunders Coogee flying up thy gleaming beach | Q |
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| Heart s desire and heart s division who would come and say to me | R |
| With the eyes of far off friendship You are as you used to be | R |
| Something glad and good has left me here with sickening discontent | S |
| Tired of looking neither knowing what it was or where it went | S |
| So it is this sight of Coogee shining in the morning dew | T |
| Sets me stumbling through dim summers once on fire with youth and you | T |
| Summers pale as southern evenings when the year has lost its power | U |
| And the wasted face of April weeps above the withered flower | U |
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| Not that seasons bring no solace not that time lacks light and rest | V |
| But the old things were the dearest and the old loves seem the best | V |
| We that start at songs familiar we that tremble at a tone | W |
| Floating down the ways of music like a sigh of sweetness flown | W |
| We can never feel the freshness never find again the mood | X |
| Left among fair featured places brightened of our brotherhood | Y |
| This and this we have to think of when the night is over all | Z |
| And the woods begin to perish and the rains begin to fall | Z |
Henry Kendall
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