The Dominion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD EEFGFGHH IIJKJKBB LLMNMNOO PPQRQRL L SSTUTVWW XXYEYEZZ NNAA2AA2B2B2 C2C2ZYZYPP D2D2TE2TE2F2F2Oh fair Ideal unto whom | A |
Through days of doubt and nights of gloom | A |
Brave hearts have clung while lips of scorn | B |
Made mock of thee as but a dream | C |
Already on the heights of morn | B |
We see thy golden sandals gleam | C |
And glimmering through the clouds that wrap thee yet | D |
The seven stars that are thy coronet | D |
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Why tarriest thou 'twixt earth and heaven | E |
Go forth to meet her Sisters seven | E |
'Tis but your welcome she awaits | F |
Ere casting off the veil of cloud | G |
The bodied Hope of blending States | F |
She stands revealed imperial proud | G |
As from your salutation sprung full grown | H |
With green for raiment and with gold for zone | H |
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From where beneath unclouded skies | I |
Thy peerless haven glittering lies | I |
From where o'er pleasant pastures rove | J |
The flocks from which thy greatness sprang | K |
From vine clad slope and orange grove | J |
From grave mute woods thy Minstrel sang | K |
From Alpine peaks aglow with flush of morn | B |
Go forth to meet her thou the eldest born | B |
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From where reverberant at thy feet | L |
The billows of two oceans meet | L |
From where the rocks thy treasures hide | M |
From mart and wharf and harbour mouth | N |
From where the city of thy pride | M |
Ennobles all the teeming South | N |
To meet her thou with loftiest zeal inflamed | O |
Go forth Victoria queen and queenly named | O |
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And thou the youngest yet most fair | P |
First to discern and first to dare | P |
Whose lips sun smitten earliest spoke | Q |
The herald words of coming good | R |
And with their clarion summons broke | Q |
The slumber of the sisterhood | R |
Foremost of all thy peers press on to greet | L |
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Her advent strewing flowers before her feet | L |
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And thou around whose brow benign | S |
Vine leaf and olive intertwine | S |
Upon whose victories the Star | T |
Of Peace looks down with no rebuke | U |
The weapons of whose warfare are | T |
The ploughshare and the pruning hook | V |
Take with thee gifts of corn and wine and oil | W |
To greet thy liege with homage of the soil | W |
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Thou too whom last the morning beams | X |
Wake from thy sleep by peaceful streams | X |
Slow westering to the Indian main | Y |
Thou too beneath thy later sun | E |
Conspire with these in glad refrain | Y |
Of welcome to the coming One | E |
And from thy fragrant forests tribute bring | Z |
Of grateful incense for thine offering | Z |
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And thou Pomona of the South | N |
Ruddy of cheek and ripe of mouth | N |
Who from thy couch of orchard bloom | A |
With fearless foot are wont to stray | A2 |
By mountain lakes or in the gloom | A |
Of forest depths unknown of day | A2 |
Be thy shrill greeting borne upon the breeze | B2 |
Above the thunder of thy girdling seas | B2 |
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Nor thou delay who dwell'st apart | C2 |
To join thy peers with gladsome heart | C2 |
Whether the summons thee o'ertake | Z |
On icy steep or fruitful plain | Y |
Or where thy craggy bulwarks break | Z |
The onslaught of the warring main | Y |
Or find thee couched within some ferny lair | P |
Flax flower and hyacinth mingling with thy hair | P |
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Bind ye the sevenfold cord apace | D2 |
Weave ye the sevenfold wreath to grace | D2 |
The brow of her whose avatar | T |
The mighty Mother waits to bless | E2 |
In sevenfold choir be borne afar | T |
The music of your joyfulness | E2 |
Till o'er the world's disquiet your song prevail | F2 |
Australia Foederata Hail all hail | F2 |
James Brunton Stephens
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