Niggers Leap, New England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNO PQRSTU RVWXCY| The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun | A |
| Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bay | B |
| and beats with boats of cloud up from the sea | C |
| against this sheer and limelit granite head | D |
| Swallow the spine of range be dark O lonely air | E |
| Make a cold quilt across the bone and skull | F |
| that screamed falling in flesh from the lipped cliff | G |
| and then were silent waiting for the flies | H |
| - | |
| Here is the symbol and climbing dark | I |
| a time for synthesis Night buoys no warning | J |
| over the rocks that wait our keels no bells | K |
| sound for the mariners Now must we measure | L |
| our days by nights our tropics by their poles | M |
| love by its end and all our speech by silence | N |
| See in the gulfs how small the light of home | O |
| - | |
| Did we not know their blood channelled our rivers | P |
| and the black dust our crops ate was their dust | Q |
| O all men are one man at last We should have known | R |
| the night that tidied up the cliffs and hid them | S |
| had the same question on its tongue for us | T |
| And there they lie that were ourselves writ strange | U |
| - | |
| Never from earth again the coolamon | R |
| or thin black children dancing like the shadows | V |
| of saplings in the wind Night lips the harsh | W |
| scarp of the tableland and cools its granite | X |
| Night floods us suddenly as history | C |
| that has sunk many islands in its good time | Y |
Judith Wright
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Niggers Leap, New England
Niggers Leap, New England is a poem by Judith Wright. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Niggers Leap, New England poem by Judith Wright
Best Poems of Judith Wright