Cape Byron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI BFBF JKJK LMLM NONOPFPF MF MF QFQF| Upon the orient utmost of the land | A |
| Enfranchised of the world alone and free | B |
| I stood before me and on either hand | A |
| The interminable solace of the sea | B |
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| A white winged hour of heaven a fugitive | C |
| Of which the angels wist not hither fled | D |
| Whose plumy rustling whispers bid me live | E |
| Its length of moments as if grief were dead | D |
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| Oh memorable hour of beauteous things | F |
| The heaving azure melting into light | G |
| The chequered sport of fleet o'ershadowings | F |
| The nearer emerald curling into white | G |
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| The shoreward billows merging each in each | H |
| To sunder yet again fold and unfold | I |
| The shining curve of far receptive beach | H |
| The silvery wave kiss on the gladdened gold | I |
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| The grandeur of the lone old promontory | B |
| The distant bourne of hills in purple guise | F |
| Athrob with soft enchantment high in glory | B |
| The peak of Warning bosomed in the skies | F |
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| Oh all too fair to be so seldom seen | J |
| This shadowy purple on the mountains sleeping | K |
| This sapphire of unutterable sheen | J |
| This beauty harvest ever ripe for reaping | K |
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| For what high end is all this daily boon | L |
| Unseen of man in sightless silence spent | M |
| Doth lavish Nature vainly importune | L |
| The unconscious witness of the firmament | M |
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| Or is it that the influent God whose breath | N |
| Informs with glory sea and shore and hill | O |
| His infinite lone rejoicing nourisheth | N |
| Upon the beauteous outcome of His will | O |
| Or is it but a patient waiting while | P |
| Against a day when many an eye shall bless | F |
| From lowly cottage and imperial pile | P |
| This wide tranquillity of loveliness | F |
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| Against a day of many thronging feet | M |
| Of virtues valours all that builds and saves | F |
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| Of human loves responsive to the sweet | M |
| Melodious importunity of waves | F |
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| I only know that this empurpled range | Q |
| This golden shore this great transcendent sea | F |
| Are now a memory that will not change | Q |
| Till I become as they a memory | F |
James Brunton Stephens
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