Morning In The Bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGHIJKJK ILILMNONPQIQRISI TIKIBIIIIINIUIQI VWIWINXNIYZYIA2B2A2 IC2D2C2E2F2G2F2ZIIIE MEM IE2H2E2IOI2OIIIIEJ2K 2J2Above the skirts of yellow clouds | A |
The god like Sun arrayed | B |
In blinding splendour swiftly rose | C |
And looked athwart the glade | B |
The sleepy dingo watched him break | D |
The bonds that curbed his flight | E |
And from his golden tresses shake | D |
The fading gems of Night | E |
And wild goburras laughed aloud | F |
Their merry morning songs | G |
As Echo answered in the depths | H |
With a thousand thousand tongues | I |
The gully depths where many a vine | J |
Of ancient growth had crept | K |
To cluster round the hoary pine | J |
Where scanty mosses wept | K |
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Huge stones and damp and broken crags | I |
In wild chaotic heap | L |
Were lying at the barren base | I |
Of the ferny hillside steep | L |
Between those fragments hollows lay | M |
Upfilled with fruitful ground | N |
Where many a modest floweret grew | O |
To scent the wind breaths round | N |
As fertile patches bloom within | P |
A dried and worldly heart | Q |
When some that look can only see | I |
The cold the barren part | Q |
The Miser full with thoughts of gain | R |
The meanest of his race | I |
May in his breast some verdure hide | S |
Though none that verdure trace | I |
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Where time worn cliffs were jutting out | T |
With rough and ragged edges | I |
The snowy mountain lily slept | K |
Behind the earthy ledges | I |
Like some sweet Oriental Maid | B |
Who blindly deems it duty | I |
To wear a veil before her face | I |
And hide her peerless beauty | I |
Or like to Innocence that thrives | I |
In midst of sin and sorrows | I |
Nor from the cheerless scene around | N |
The least infection borrows | I |
But stayeth out her mortal life | U |
Though in that lifetime lonely | I |
With Virtue s lustre round her heart | Q |
And Virtue s lustre only | I |
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A patch of sunshine here and there | V |
Lay on a leaf strewn water pool | W |
Whose tribute trickled down the rocks | I |
In gurgling ripples clear and cool | W |
As iguanas from the clefts | I |
Would steal along with rustling sound | N |
To where the restless eddies roamed | X |
Amongst the arrowy rushes round | N |
While scanning them with angry eyes | I |
From off a fallen myrtle log | Y |
That branchless bridged the brushy creek | Z |
There stood and barked a Shepherd s Dog | Y |
And underneath a neighbouring mass | I |
Of wattles intertwining | A2 |
His Master lay his back against | B2 |
The grassy banks reclining | A2 |
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Beneath the shade of ironbarks | I |
Stretched o er the valley s sloping bed | C2 |
Half hidden in a tea tree scrub | D2 |
A flock of dusky sheep were spread | C2 |
And fitful bleating faintly came | E2 |
On every joyous breath of wind | F2 |
That up the stony hills would fly | G2 |
And leave the hollows far behind | F2 |
Wild tones of music from the Creek | Z |
Were intermingling with the breeze | I |
The loud rich lays of countless birds | I |
Perched on the dark mimosa trees | I |
Those merry birds with wings of light | E |
Which rival every golden ray | M |
Out flashing from the lamps of Night | E |
Or streaming o er the brow of Day | M |
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Amongst the gnarly apple trees | I |
A gorgeous tribe of parrots came | E2 |
And screaming leapt from bough to bough | H2 |
Like living jets of crimson flame | E2 |
And where the hillside growing gums | I |
Their web like foliage upward threw | O |
Old Nature rang with echoes from | I2 |
The loud voiced mountain cockatoo | O |
And a thousand nameless twittering things | I |
Between the rustling sapling sprays | I |
Were flashing through the fragrant leaves | I |
And dancing like to fabled fays | I |
Rejoicing in the glorious light | E |
That beauteous Morning had unfurled | J2 |
To make the heart of Nature glad | K2 |
And clothe with smiles a weeping World | J2 |
Henry Kendall
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