Mangroves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFEH| These black bush waters heavy with crusted boughs | A |
| Like plumes above dead captains wake the mind | B |
| Uncounted kissing unremembered vows | A |
| Nights long forgotten moons too dark to find | B |
| Or stars too cold all quick things that have fled | C |
| Whilst these old bubbles uprise in older stone | D |
| Return like pale dead faces of children dead | C |
| Staring unfelt through doors for ever unknown | D |
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| O silent ones that drink these timeless pools | E |
| Eternal brothers bending so deeply over | F |
| Your branches tremble above my tears again | G |
| And even my songs are stolen from some old lover | F |
| Who cried beneath your leaves like other fools | E |
| While still they whisper in vain in vain in vain | H |
Kenneth Slessor
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