Western Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOPO 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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