The Ports Of The Open Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDEFEFGGH IJEJKDKD CLCLKDKD MNONKKKK PQQQRDRD KSKSQTQT QUQUVDWD QXQXODODDown here where the ships loom large in | A |
The gloom when the sea storms veer | B |
Down here on the south west margin | C |
Of the western hemisphere | B |
Where the might of a world wide ocean | C |
Round the youngest land rolls free | D |
Storm bound from the world s commotion | C |
Lie the Ports of the Open Sea | D |
By the bluff where the grey sand reaches | E |
To the kerb of the spray swept street | F |
By the sweep of the black sand beaches | E |
From the main road travellers feet | F |
By the heights like a work Titanic | G |
By a bluff lined coast volcanic | G |
Lie the Ports of the wild South east | H |
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By the steeps of the snow capped range | I |
By the scarped and terraced hills | J |
Far away from the swift life changes | E |
From the wear of the strife that kills | J |
Where the land in the Spring seems younger | K |
Than a land of the Earth might be | D |
Oh the hearts of the rovers hunger | K |
For the Ports of the Open Sea | D |
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But the captains watch and hearken | C |
For a sign of the South Sea wrath | L |
Let the face of the South east darken | C |
And they turn to the ocean path | L |
Ay the sea boats dare not linger | K |
Whatever the cargo be | D |
When the South east lifts a finger | K |
By the Ports of the Open Sea | D |
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South by the bleak Bluff faring | M |
North where the Three Kings wait | N |
South east the tempest daring | O |
Flight through the storm tossed strait | N |
Yonder a white winged roamer | K |
Struck where the rollers roar | K |
Where the great green froth flaked comber | K |
Breaks down on a black ribbed shore | K |
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For the South east lands are dread lands | P |
To the sailor in the shrouds | Q |
Where the low clouds loom like headlands | Q |
And the black bluffs blur like clouds | Q |
When the breakers rage to windward | R |
And the lights are masked a lee | D |
And the sunken rocks run inward | R |
To a Port of the Open Sea | D |
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But oh for the South east weather | K |
The sweep of the three days gale | S |
When far through the flax and heather | K |
The spindrift drives like hail | S |
Glory to man s creations | Q |
That drive where the gale grows gruff | T |
When the homes of the sea coast stations | Q |
Flash white from the dark ning bluff | T |
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When the swell of the South east rouses | Q |
The wrath of the Maori sprite | U |
And the brown folk flee their houses | Q |
And crouch in the flax by night | U |
And wait as they long have waited | V |
In fear as the brown folk be | D |
The wave of destruction fated | W |
For the Ports of the Open Sea | D |
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Grey cloud to the mountain bases | Q |
Wild boughs that rush and sweep | X |
On the rounded hills the tussocks | Q |
Like flocks of flying sheep | X |
A lonely storm bird soaring | O |
O er tussock fern and tree | D |
And the boulder beaches roaring | O |
The Hymn of the Open Sea | D |
Henry Lawson
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