The Southern Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDF AGAGDADA AGAGGAGA GAGAHAIA HAJAAAA A BKBKDADA ALALMAMA KGKGAAAA NONOAAAA CGCGNANA| A Frustration | A |
| Four stars on Night's brow or Night's bosom | B |
| Whichever the reader prefers | C |
| Or Night without either may do some | B |
| Each one to his taste or to hers | C |
| Four stars to continue inditing | D |
| So long as I feel in the vein | E |
| Hullo what the deuce is that biting | D |
| Mosquitos again | F |
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| Oh glories not gilded but golden | A |
| Oh daughters of Night unexcelled | G |
| By the sons of the north unbeholden | A |
| By our sons if we have them beheld | G |
| Oh jewels the midnight enriching | D |
| Oh four which are double of twain | A |
| Oh mystical bother the itching | D |
| Mosquitos again | A |
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| You alone I can anchor my eye on | A |
| Of you and you only I'll write | G |
| And I now look awry on Orion | A |
| That once was my chiefest delight | G |
| Ye exalt me high over the petty | G |
| Conditions of pleasure and pain | A |
| Oh Heaven here are these maladetti | G |
| Mosquitos again | A |
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| The poet should ever be placid | G |
| Oh vex not his soul or his skin | A |
| Shall I scare them with sulphurous acid | G |
| It is done and afresh I begin | A |
| Lucid orbs that last sting very sore is | H |
| I am fain to leave off I am fain | A |
| It has given me uncommon dolores | I |
| Simpliciter pain | A |
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| Not quite what the shape of a cross is | H |
| A little lop sided I own | A |
| Confound your infernal proboscis | J |
| Inserted well nigh to the bone | A |
| Queen lights of the heights of high heaven | A |
| Ensconced in the crystal inane | A |
| Oh me here are seventy times seven | A |
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| Mosquitos again | A |
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| Oh horns of a mighty trapezium | B |
| Quadrilateral area hail | K |
| Oh bright as the light of magnesium | B |
| Oh hang them all female and male | K |
| At the end of an hour of their stinging | D |
| What shall rest of me then what remain | A |
| I shall die as the swan dieth singing | D |
| Mosquitos again | A |
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| Shock keen as the stroke of the levin | A |
| They sting and I change in a flash | L |
| From the peace and the poppies of heaven | A |
| To the flame and the fuel of dash | L |
| O Cross of the South I forgot you | M |
| These demons have addled my brain | A |
| Once more I look upward Od rot you | M |
| You're at it again | A |
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| There stick in your pitiless brad awl | K |
| And do your malevolent worst | G |
| Dine on me and when you have had all | K |
| Let others go in for a burst | G |
| O silent and pure constellation | A |
| Can you pardon my fretful refrain | A |
| Forgive oh forgive my vexation | A |
| They're at it again | A |
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| Oh imps that provoke to mad laughter | N |
| Winged fiends that are fed from my brow | O |
| Bite hard let your neighbours come after | N |
| And sting where you stung me just now | O |
| Red brands on it smitten and bitten | A |
| Round blotches I rub at in vain | A |
| Oh Crux Whatsoever I've written | A |
| I've written in pain | A |
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| Ye chrysolite crystalline creatures | C |
| Wan watchers the fairest afield | G |
| Stars and garters are these my own features | C |
| In the merciless mirror revealed | G |
| They are mine even mine and none other | N |
| And my hands how they slacken and strain | A |
| Oh my sister my spouse and my mother | N |
| I'm going insane | A |
James Brunton Stephens
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