The Celebes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFGHIJKLMMN NL| DEAR islands of the Orient | A |
| Where Nature's first of love was spent | A |
| Sweet hill tops of the summered land | B |
| Where gods and men went hand in hand | B |
| In golden days of sinless earth | C |
| Woe rack the womb of time that bore | D |
| The primal evil to its birth | C |
| It came the gods were seen no more | D |
| The fields made sacred by their feet | E |
| The flowers they loved grown all too sweet | E |
| The streams their bright forms mirrored | F |
| The fragrant banks that made their bed | G |
| The human hearts round which they wove | H |
| Their threads of superhuman love | I |
| These were too dear and desolate | J |
| To sink to fallen man's estate | K |
| The gods who loved them loosed the seas | L |
| Struck free the barriers of the deep | M |
| That rolled in one careering sweep | M |
| And filled the land as 'twere a grave | N |
| And left no beauteous remnant save | N |
| Those hill tops called the Celebes | L |
John Boyle O'reilly
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