Northern River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGD HBDBIJKLFD MFNODPFDFB| When summer days grow harsh | A |
| my thoughts return to my river | B |
| fed by white mountain springs | C |
| beloved of the shy bird the bellbird | D |
| whose cry is like falling water | B |
| O nighted with the green vine | E |
| lit with the rock lilies | F |
| the river speaks in the silence | G |
| and my heart will also be quiet | D |
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| Where your valley grows wide in the plains | H |
| they have felled the trees wild river | B |
| Your course they have checked and altered | D |
| your sweet Alcaic metre | B |
| Not the grey kangaroo deer eyes timorous | I |
| will come to your pools at dawn | J |
| but their tamed and humbled herds | K |
| will muddy the watering places | L |
| Passing their roads and cities | F |
| you will not escape unsoiled | D |
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| But where grown old and weary | M |
| stagnant among the mangroves | F |
| you hope no longer there on a sudden | N |
| with a shock like joy beats up | O |
| the cold clean pulse of the tide | D |
| the touch of sea in greeting | P |
| the sea that encompasses | F |
| all sorrow and delight | D |
| and holds the memories | F |
| of every stream and river | B |
Judith Wright
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