Illa Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC CCCC DCDC CBCB DBDB DEDE FBFB CDCD DCDC| A strong sea wind flies up and sings | A |
| Across the blown wet border | B |
| Whose stormy echo runs and rings | A |
| Like bells in wild disorder | B |
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| Fierce breath hath vexed the foreland's face | C |
| It glistens glooms and glistens | C |
| But deep within this quiet place | C |
| Sweet Illa lies and listens | C |
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| Sweet Illa of the shining sands | C |
| She sleeps in shady hollows | C |
| Where August flits with flowerful hands | C |
| And silver Summer follows | C |
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| Far up the naked hills is heard | D |
| A noise of many waters | C |
| But green haired Illa lies unstirred | D |
| Amongst her star like daughters | C |
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| The tempest pent in moaning ways | C |
| Awakes the shepherd yonder | B |
| But Illa dreams unknown to days | C |
| Whose wings are wind and thunder | B |
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| Here fairy hands and floral feet | D |
| Are brought by bright October | B |
| Here stained with grapes and smit with heat | D |
| Comes Autumn sweet and sober | B |
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| Here lovers rest what time the red | D |
| And yellow colours mingle | E |
| And daylight droops with dying head | D |
| Beyond the western dingle | E |
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| And here from month to month the time | F |
| Is kissed by peace and pleasure | B |
| While Nature sings her woodland rhyme | F |
| And hoards her woodland treasure | B |
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| Ah Illa Creek ere evening spreads | C |
| Her wings o'er towns unshaded | D |
| How oft we seek thy mossy beds | C |
| To lave our foreheads faded | D |
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| For let me whisper then we find | D |
| The strength that lives nor falters | C |
| In wood and water waste and wind | D |
| And hidden mountain altars | C |
Henry Kendall
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