The Australian Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG| The Morning Star paled slowly the Cross hung low to the sea | A |
| And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free | A |
| The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night | B |
| Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light | B |
| Still in the dying darkness still in the forest dim | C |
| The pearly dew of the dawning clung to each giant limb | C |
| Till the sun came up from ocean red with the cold sea mist | D |
| And smote on the limestone ridges and the shining tree tops kissed | D |
| Then the fiery Scorpion vanished the magpie's note was heard | E |
| And the wind in the she oak wavered and the honeysuckles stirred | E |
| The airy golden vapour rose from the river breast | F |
| The kingfisher came darting out of his crannied nest | F |
| And the bulrushes and reed beds put off their sallow gray | G |
| And burnt with cloudy crimson at dawning of the day | G |
James Lister Cuthbertson
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