Middle Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHJ FFFF EEEE KLKL EMEM EFEF NFNF GFGF| Lonely wonder delight past hoping | A |
| Sky line broken by stirring trees | B |
| Grey rocks hither and shoreward sloping | A |
| Silent bracken about my knees | B |
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| Dusky scrub where the sunlight splashes | C |
| Glimmer of waters barely seen | D |
| Here the hope that was dust and ashes | C |
| Leaps and flashes in flames of green | D |
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| Through the boughs that are still before me | E |
| Misty blue of the harbour hills | F |
| Mighty Spirit of Earth who bore me | E |
| Here the peace of thy love distils | F |
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| Fools have harried me hell has driven | G |
| Bidding me toil for its fading shows | F |
| Back I spring to your arms forgiven | G |
| Back to the truth that a dreamer knows | F |
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| Gold and glory and fleeting pleasure | H |
| Pass in dust or as melting cloud | I |
| You can dower with eternal treasure | H |
| Heart uplifted and head unbowed | J |
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| Arms outstretched and the hill top hushes | F |
| Long deep breath and the whole scene fades | F |
| Sweeping homeward my soul outrushes | F |
| My heart the heart of the world invades | F |
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| Fleshly trammels no longer bind me | E |
| Joyous forgetting that such things be | E |
| Time and space have been left behind me | E |
| Brother of stars I am soaring free | E |
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| Cramped no more I exult extended | K |
| All I think of I hold within | L |
| Secret surety of vision splendid | K |
| Makes me one with my lordly kin | L |
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| Out of the vast I return and slowly | E |
| Into the prison of sense I glide | M |
| Yet the splendour is gone not wholly | E |
| Yet the love and the peace abide | M |
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| Soft wind rustles the leaves and brightly | E |
| Wavers the light on the ferns and trees | F |
| Water ripples are laughing lightly | E |
| Played upon by the sun and breeze | F |
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| There the robin a friendly fellow | N |
| Clings to a sapling stem and waits | F |
| Just where I noted his breast of yellow | N |
| Ere I ventured beyond the gates | F |
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| Only a moment as clocks can reckon | G |
| Dwells the soul at that height of heights | F |
| Ah but I know why the wood gods beckon | G |
| Why the stars are as beacon lights | F |
John Le Gay Brereton
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