The Australian Emigrant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGDEHI JKLLMNOO PPQQRRSS AALLTTUU| How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray | A |
| When Australia first rose in the distance away | A |
| As welcome to us on the deck of the bark | B |
| As the dove to the vision of those in the ark | B |
| What fairylike fancies appear d to the view | C |
| As nearer and nearer the haven we drew | C |
| What castles were built and rebuilt in the brain | D |
| To totter and crumble to nothing again | E |
| We had roam d o er the ocean had travers d a path | F |
| Where the tempest surrounded and shriek d in its wrath | F |
| Alike we had roll d in the hurricane s breath | G |
| And slumber d on waters as silent as death | G |
| We had watch d the Day breaking each morn on the main | D |
| And had seen it sink down in the billows again | E |
| For week after week till dishearten d we thought | H |
| An age would elapse ere we enter d the port | I |
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| How often while ploughing the watery waste | J |
| Our thoughts from the Future have turn d to the Past | K |
| How often our bosoms have heav d with regret | L |
| For faces and scenes we could never forget | L |
| For we d seen as the shadows o er curtain d our minds | M |
| The cliffs of old England receding behind | N |
| And had turned in our tears from the view of the shore | O |
| The land of our childhood to see it no more | O |
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| But when that red morning awoke from its sleep | P |
| To show us this land like a cloud on the deep | P |
| And when the warm sunbeams imparted their glow | Q |
| To the heavens above and the ocean below | Q |
| The hearts had been aching then revell d with joy | R |
| And a pleasure was tasted exempt from alloy | R |
| The souls had been heavy grew happy and light | S |
| And all was forgotten in present delight | S |
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| Tis true of the hopes that were verdant that day | A |
| There is more than the half of them withered away | A |
| Tis true that emotions of temper d regret | L |
| Still live for the country we ll never forget | L |
| But yet we are happy since learning to love | T |
| The scenes that surround us the skies are above | T |
| We find ourselves bound as it were by a spell | U |
| In the clime we ve adopted contented to dwell | U |
Henry Kendall
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