Sydney Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHICJKLBMNOPDQ RSTUIVWXY CZA2B2B2C2D2B2E2B2B2 F2MB2B2B2B2G2B2B2B2Where Hornby like a mighty fallen star | A |
Burns through the darkness with a splendid ring | B |
Of tenfold light and where the awful face | C |
Of Sydney s northern headland stares all night | D |
O er dark determined waters from the east | E |
From year to year a wild Titanic voice | F |
Of fierce aggressive sea shoots up and makes | G |
When storm sails high through drifts of driving sleet | H |
And in the days when limpid waters glass | I |
December s sunny hair and forest face | C |
A roaring down by immemorial caves | J |
A thunder in the everlasting hills | K |
But calm and lucid as an English lake | L |
Beloved by beams and wooed by wind and wing | B |
Shut in from tempest trampled wastes of wave | M |
And sheltered from white wraths of surge by walls | N |
Grand ramparts founded by the hand of God | O |
The lordly Harbour gleams Yea like a shield | P |
Of marvellous gold dropped in his fiery flight | D |
By some lost angel in the elder days | Q |
When Satan faced and fought Omnipotence | R |
It shines amongst fair flowering hills and flows | S |
By dells of glimmering greenness manifold | T |
And all day long when soft eyed Spring comes round | U |
With gracious gifts of bird and leaf and grass | I |
And through the noon when sumptuous Summer sleeps | V |
By yellowing runnels under beetling cliffs | W |
This royal water blossoms far and wide | X |
With ships from all the corners of the world | Y |
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And while sweet Autumn with her gipsy face | C |
Stands in the gardens splashed from heel to thigh | Z |
With spinning vine blood yea and when the mild | A2 |
Wan face of our Australian Winter looks | B2 |
Across the congregated southern fens | B2 |
Then low melodious shell like songs are heard | C2 |
Beneath proud hulls and pompous clouds of sail | D2 |
By yellow beaches under lisping leaves | B2 |
And hidden nooks to Youth and Beauty dear | E2 |
And where the ear may catch the counter voice | B2 |
Of Ocean travelling over far blue tracts | B2 |
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Moreover when the moon is gazing down | F2 |
Upon her lovely reflex in the wave | M |
What time she sitting in the zenith makes | B2 |
A silver silence over stirless woods | B2 |
Then where its echoes start at sudden bells | B2 |
And where its waters gleam with flying lights | B2 |
The haven lies in all its beauty clad | G2 |
More lovely even than the golden lakes | B2 |
The poet saw while dreaming splendid dreams | B2 |
Which showed his soul the far Hesperides | B2 |
Henry Kendall
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