The Domain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN FOFO PQPQ RSRS TATA UVUV WXWX| The bulging cloud mounts lazily | A |
| In shade where sunlight glances through | B |
| And sweeping lightly from the tree | A |
| Melts indolently in the blue | B |
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| The scanty grass blades yonder shake | C |
| A tremulous flurry takes the smoke | D |
| And ancient memories start awake | C |
| At pungent scent of fig and oak | D |
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| For here of old an urchin strayed | E |
| And gloomed in lonely pride the while | F |
| An outlaw in a forest glade | E |
| Or pirate on a tropic isle | F |
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| Here where a staid policeman strolls | G |
| Ned Kelly in his armour stood | H |
| And underneath the roadway rolls | G |
| The river of the Haunted Wood | H |
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| And yonder couched in phantom fern | I |
| Not far from Nelson's rolling ship | J |
| I spied the antler'd head of Herne | I |
| And saw the startled rabbit skip | J |
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| And Will Wing shook in desperate strife | K |
| Defiantly his bloody hand | L |
| And heard the waves of daily life | K |
| Drone on the reef ring far from land | L |
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| Not Robin clad in verdant baize | M |
| Nor Britain's silver plated king | N |
| Was master of the winning ways | M |
| That drew me to the flag of Wing | N |
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| He sauntered on the southern isle | F |
| In garments of eccentric cut | O |
| And with his grim sardonic smile | F |
| Would masticate his coco nut | O |
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| Within his cave upon a heap | P |
| Of Spanish coin and rubies red | Q |
| I've seen him lying half asleep | P |
| And dreaming of the blood he'd shed | Q |
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| The gold dust spilled about the ground | R |
| Made common dirt a treasure rare | S |
| And if you fingered it you found | R |
| The flashing jewels buried there | S |
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| The seabird sweeping free and far | T |
| On wings of wonder will not see | A |
| That green isle and its coral bar | T |
| That corsair and his mystery | A |
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| As when a lump of sugar shrinks | U |
| When coffee waves about it glide | V |
| Crumbles and topples melts and sinks | U |
| And mingles with the sombre tide | V |
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| So is the islet vanished yet | W |
| As now I gulp a bitter draught | X |
| The sweetness lingers Up and set | W |
| The canvas of the rakish craft | X |
John Le Gay Brereton
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