The Dominion Of Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEE FFCGCGBE HIJKJKBB CCILILCC IIMBM BCC CCCNCNII OOIPIPNN| She is not yet but he whose ear | A |
| Thrills to that finer atmosphere | B |
| Where footfalls of appointed things | C |
| Reverberant of days to be | D |
| Are heard in forecast echoings | C |
| Like wave beats from a viewless sea | C |
| Hears in the voiceful tremors of the sky | E |
| Auroral heralds whispering She is nigh | E |
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| She is not yet but he whose sight | F |
| Foreknows the advent of the light | F |
| Whose soul to morning radiance turns | C |
| Ere night her curtain hath withdrawn | G |
| And in its quivering folds discerns | C |
| The mute monitions of the dawn | G |
| With urgent sense strained onward to descry | B |
| Her distant tokens starts to find Her nigh | E |
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| Not yet her day How long not yet | H |
| There comes the flush of violet | I |
| And heavenward faces all aflame | J |
| With sanguine imminence of morn | K |
| Wait but the sun kiss to proclaim | J |
| The Day of The Dominion born | K |
| Prelusive baptism ere the natal hour | B |
| Named with the name and prophecy of power | B |
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| Already here to hearts intense | C |
| A spirit force transcending sense | C |
| In heights unscaled in deeps unstirred | I |
| Beneath the calm above the storm | L |
| She waits the incorporating word | I |
| To bid her tremble into form | L |
| Already like divining rods men's souls | C |
| Bend down to where the unseen river rolls | C |
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| For even as from sight concealed | I |
| By never flush of dawn revealed | I |
| Nor e'er illumed by golden noon | M |
| Nor sunset streaked with crimson bar | B |
| Nor silver spanned by wake of moon | M |
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| Nor visited of any star | B |
| Beneath these lands a river waits to bless | C |
| So men divine our utmost wilderness | C |
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| Rolls dark but yet shall know our skies | C |
| Soon as the wisdom of the wise | C |
| Conspires with nature to disclose | C |
| The blessing prisoned and unseen | N |
| Till round our lessening wastes there glows | C |
| A perfect zone of broadening green | N |
| Till all our land Australia Felix called | I |
| Become one Continent Isle of Emerald | I |
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| So flows beneath our good and ill | O |
| A viewless stream of Common Will | O |
| A gathering force a present might | I |
| That from its silent depths of gloom | P |
| At Wisdom's voice shall leap to light | I |
| And hide our barren feuds in bloom | P |
| Till all our sundering lines with love o'ergrown | N |
| Our bounds shall be the girdling seas alone | N |
James Brunton Stephens
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