Above Crow's Nest [sydney] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMNM OPOPQRSR BTBTUDVD OWOWXYXY ZA2ZA2OB2OB2 VC2VD2E2WAW| A BLANKET low and leaden | A |
| Though rent across the west | B |
| Whose darkness seems to deaden | A |
| The brightest and the best | B |
| A sunset white and staring | C |
| On cloud wrecks far away | D |
| And haggard house walls glaring | C |
| A farewell to the day | D |
| - | |
| A light on tower and steeple | E |
| Where sun no longer shines | F |
| My people Oh my people | E |
| Rise up and read the signs | F |
| Low looms the nearer high line | G |
| No sign of star or moon | H |
| The horseman on the skyline | G |
| Rode hard this afternoon | H |
| - | |
| Is he and who shall know it | I |
| The spectre of a scout | J |
| The spirit of a poet | K |
| Whose truths were met with doubt | J |
| Who sought and who succeeded | L |
| In marking danger s track | M |
| Whose warnings were unheeded | N |
| Till all the sky was black | M |
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| It is a shameful story | O |
| For our young generous home | P |
| Without the rise and glory | O |
| We d go as Greece and Rome | P |
| Without the sacrifices | Q |
| That make a nation s name | R |
| The elder nation s vices | S |
| And luxuries we claim | R |
| - | |
| Grown vain without a conquest | B |
| And sure without a fort | T |
| And maddened in the one quest | B |
| For pleasure or for sport | T |
| Self blinded to our starkness | U |
| We d fling the time away | D |
| To fight half armed in darkness | V |
| Who should be armed to day | D |
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| This song is for the city | O |
| The city in its pride | W |
| The coming time shall pity | O |
| And shield the countryside | W |
| Shall we live in the present | X |
| Till fearful war clouds loom | Y |
| And till the sullen peasant | X |
| Shall leave us to our doom | Y |
| - | |
| Cloud fortresses titanic | Z |
| Along the western sky | A2 |
| The tired bowed mechanic | Z |
| And pallid clerk flit by | A2 |
| Lit by a light unhealthy | O |
| The ghastly after glare | B2 |
| The veiled and goggled wealthy | O |
| Drive fast they know not where | B2 |
| - | |
| Night s sullen spirit rouses | V |
| The darkening gables lour | C2 |
| From ugly four roomed houses | V |
| Verandah d windows glower | D2 |
| The last long day stare dies on | E2 |
| The scrub ridged western side | W |
| And round the near horizon | A |
| The spectral horsemen ride | W |
Henry Lawson
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