Kiama Revisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGDGDAFAH GGIGAFAFEJKJBGBGLFLF GGGG BBBHAMAMCGCGFFFFKDKD ABABAKAEKAEAEFEFBEBE BAFA| WE STOOD by the window and hearkened | A |
| To the voice of the runnels sea driven | B |
| While northward the mountain heads darkened | A |
| Girt round with the clamours of heaven | B |
| One peak with the storm at his portal | C |
| Loomed out to the left of his brothers | D |
| Sustained and sublime and immortal | C |
| A king and the lord of the others | D |
| Beneath him a cry from the surges | E |
| Rang shrill like a clarion calling | F |
| And about him the wind of the gorges | E |
| Went falling and rising and falling | F |
| But I as the roofs of the thunder | G |
| Were cloven with manifold fires | D |
| Turned back from the wail and the wonder | G |
| And dreamed of old days and desires | D |
| A song that was made I remembered | A |
| A song that was made in the gloaming | F |
| Of suns which are sunken and numbered | A |
| With times that my heart hath no home in | H |
| But I said to my Dream I am calmer | G |
| Than waters asleep on the river | G |
| I can look at the hills of Kiama | I |
| And bury that dead Past for ever | G |
| Past sight out of mind alienated | A |
| Said the Dream to me wearily sighing | F |
| Ah where is the Winter you mated | A |
| To Love its decline and its dying | F |
| Here five years ago there were places | E |
| That knew of her cunning to grieve you | J |
| But alas for her eyes and her graces | K |
| And wherefore and how did she leave you | J |
| Have you hidden the ways of this Woman | B |
| Her whispers her glances her power | G |
| To hold you as demon holds human | B |
| Chained back to the day and the hour | G |
| Say where have you buried her sweetness | L |
| Her coldness for youth and its yearning | F |
| Is the sleep of your Sorrow a witness | L |
| She is passed all the roads of returning | F |
| Was she left with her beauty O lover | G |
| And the shreds of your passion about her | G |
| Beyond reach and where none can discover | G |
| Ah what is the wide world without her | G |
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| I answered Behold I was broken | B |
| Because of this bright bitter maiden | B |
| Who helped me with never a token | B |
| To beat down the dark I had strayed in | H |
| She knew that my soul was entangled | A |
| By what was too fiery to bear then | M |
| Nor cared how she withered and strangled | A |
| My life with her eyes and her hair then | M |
| But I have not leapt to the level | C |
| Where light and the shadows dissever | G |
| She is fair but a beautiful devil | C |
| That I have forgotten for ever | G |
| She is sweeter than music or singing | F |
| Said the Dream to me heavily moaning | F |
| Her voice in your slumber is ringing | F |
| And where is the end the atoning | F |
| Can you look at the red of the roses | K |
| Are you friend of the fields and the flowers | D |
| Can you bear the faint day as it closes | K |
| And dies into twilighted hours | D |
| Do you love the low notes of the ballad | A |
| She sang in her darling old fashion | B |
| And I whispered O Dream I am pallid | A |
| And perished because of my passion | B |
| But the Wraith withered out and the rifted | A |
| Gray hills gleaming over the granges | K |
| Stood robed with moon rainbows that shifted | A |
| And shimmered resplendent with changes | E |
| While for the dim ocean ledges | K |
| The storm and the surges were blended | A |
| Sheer down the bluff sides of the ridges | E |
| Spent winds and the waters descended | A |
| The forests the crags and the forelands | E |
| Grew sweet with the stars after raining | F |
| But out in the north lying moorlands | E |
| I heard the lone plover complaining | F |
| From these to Kiama half hidden | B |
| In a yellow sea mist on the slopings | E |
| Of hills by the torrents be ridden | B |
| I turned with my aches and my hopings | E |
| Saying this There are those that are taken | B |
| By Fate to wear Love as a raiment | A |
| Whose texture is trouble with breaking | F |
| Of youth and no hope of repayment | A |
Henry Kendall
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