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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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