Sydney Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHICJKLBMNOPDQ RSTUIVWXY CZA2B2B2C2D2B2E2B2B2 F2MB2B2B2B2G2B2B2B2

Where Hornby like a mighty fallen starA
Burns through the darkness with a splendid ringB
Of tenfold light and where the awful faceC
Of Sydney s northern headland stares all nightD
O er dark determined waters from the eastE
From year to year a wild Titanic voiceF
Of fierce aggressive sea shoots up and makesG
When storm sails high through drifts of driving sleetH
And in the days when limpid waters glassI
December s sunny hair and forest faceC
A roaring down by immemorial cavesJ
A thunder in the everlasting hillsK
But calm and lucid as an English lakeL
Beloved by beams and wooed by wind and wingB
Shut in from tempest trampled wastes of waveM
And sheltered from white wraths of surge by wallsN
Grand ramparts founded by the hand of GodO
The lordly Harbour gleams Yea like a shieldP
Of marvellous gold dropped in his fiery flightD
By some lost angel in the elder daysQ
When Satan faced and fought OmnipotenceR
It shines amongst fair flowering hills and flowsS
By dells of glimmering greenness manifoldT
And all day long when soft eyed Spring comes roundU
With gracious gifts of bird and leaf and grassI
And through the noon when sumptuous Summer sleepsV
By yellowing runnels under beetling cliffsW
This royal water blossoms far and wideX
With ships from all the corners of the worldY
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And while sweet Autumn with her gipsy faceC
Stands in the gardens splashed from heel to thighZ
With spinning vine blood yea and when the mildA2
Wan face of our Australian Winter looksB2
Across the congregated southern fensB2
Then low melodious shell like songs are heardC2
Beneath proud hulls and pompous clouds of sailD2
By yellow beaches under lisping leavesB2
And hidden nooks to Youth and Beauty dearE2
And where the ear may catch the counter voiceB2
Of Ocean travelling over far blue tractsB2
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Moreover when the moon is gazing downF2
Upon her lovely reflex in the waveM
What time she sitting in the zenith makesB2
A silver silence over stirless woodsB2
Then where its echoes start at sudden bellsB2
And where its waters gleam with flying lightsB2
The haven lies in all its beauty cladG2
More lovely even than the golden lakesB2
The poet saw while dreaming splendid dreamsB2
Which showed his soul the far HesperidesB2

Henry Kendall



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