Western Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP| O Beauteous Southland Land of yellow air | A |
| That hangeth o've thee slumbering and doth hold | B |
| The moveless foliage of thy valleys fair | A |
| And wooded hills like aureole of gold | B |
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| Oh thou discovered ere the fitting time | C |
| Ere Nature in completion turned thee forth | D |
| Ere aught was finished but thy peerless clime | C |
| Thy virgin breath allured the amorous North | D |
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| O Land God made thee wondrous to the eye | E |
| But His sweet singers thou hast never heard | F |
| He left thee meaning to come bye and bye | E |
| And give rich voice to every bright winged bird | F |
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| He painted with fresh hues thy myriad flowers | G |
| But left them scentless ah their woeful dole | H |
| Like sad reproach of their creator's powers | G |
| To make so sweet fair bodies void of soul | H |
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| He gave thee trees of odorous precious wood | I |
| But midst them all bloomed not one tree of fruit | J |
| He looked but said not that His work was good | I |
| When leaving thee all perfumeless and mute | J |
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| He blessed thy flowers with honey every bell | K |
| Looks earthward sunward with a yearning wist | L |
| But no bee lover ever notes the swell | K |
| Of hearts like lips a hungering to be kist | L |
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| O Strange Land thou art virgin Thou art more | M |
| Than fig tree barren Would that I could paint | N |
| For other's eyes the glory of the shore | M |
| Where last I saw thee but the senses faint | N |
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| In soft delicious dreaming when they drain | O |
| Thy wine of colour Virgin fair thou art | P |
| All sweetly fruitful waiting with soft pain | O |
| The spouse that comes to wake thy sleeping heart | P |
John Boyle O'reilly
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