Dunedin In The Gloaming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB AAA CCC DDD CCC EEE EEE CCC FFF| Like a black enamoured King whispered low the thunder | A |
| To the lights of Roslyn terraced far asunder | A |
| Hovered low the sister cloud in wild warm wonder | A |
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| O my love Dunedin town the only the abiding | B |
| Who can look undazzled up where the Norn is riding | B |
| Watch the sword of destiny from the scabbard gliding | B |
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| Dark and rich and ringing true word and look for ever | A |
| Taking to her woman heart all forlorn endeavour | A |
| Heaven's sea about her feet not the bounded river | A |
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| Sister of the mountain mist and never to be holden | C |
| With the weary sophistries that dimmer eyes embolden | C |
| O the dark Dunedin town shot with green and golden | C |
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| Then a silver pioneer netted in the rift | D |
| Leaning over Maori Hill dreaming in the lift | D |
| Dropped her starry memories through the passioned drift | D |
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| Once I do remember them the glory and the garden | C |
| Ere the elder stars had learnt God's mystery of pardon | C |
| Ere the youngest I myself had seen the flaming warden | C |
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| Once even after even I stole ever shy and early | E |
| To mirror me within a glade of Eden cool and pearly | E |
| Where shy and cold and holy ran a torrent sought but rarely | E |
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| And fondly could I swear that this my glade had risen newly | E |
| Burst the burning desert tomb wherein she lieth truly | E |
| To keep an Easter with the birds and me who loved her duly | E |
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| Wailing laughing loving hoar spake the lordly ocean | C |
| You are sheen and steadfastness I am sheen and motion | C |
| Gulfing argosies for whim navies for a notion | C |
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| Sleep you well Dunedin Town though loud the lulling lyre is | F |
| Lady of the stars terrene where quick the human fire is | F |
| Lady of the Maori pines the turrets and the eyries | F |
Jessie Mackay
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