Pan At Lane Cove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADAEFGFHEHEIDDD DIDIJKDKDJDJKLMLNKNK| SCALY with poison bright with flame | A |
| Great fungi steam beside the gate | B |
| Run tentacles through flagstone cracks | C |
| Or claw beyond where meditate | B |
| Wet poplars on a pitchy lawn | D |
| Some seignior of colonial fame | A |
| Has planted here a stone cut faun | D |
| Whose flute juts like a frozen flame | A |
| O lonely faun what songs are these | E |
| For skies where no Immortals hide | F |
| Why finger in this dour abode | G |
| Those Pan pipes girdled at your side | F |
| Your Gods and Hellas too have passed | H |
| Forsaken are the Cyclades | E |
| And surely faun you are the last | H |
| To pipe such ancient songs as these | E |
| Yet blow your stone lipped flute and blow | I |
| Those red and silver pipes of Pan | D |
| Cold stars are bubbling round the moon | D |
| Which like some golden Indiaman | D |
| Disgorged by waterspouts and blown | D |
| Through heaven's archipelago | I |
| Drives orange bows by clouds of stone | D |
| Blow blow your flute you stone boy blow | I |
| And Chiron pipe your centaurs out | J |
| The night has looped a smoky scarf | K |
| Round campanili in the town | D |
| And thrown a cloak about Clontarf | K |
| Now earth is ripe for Pan again | D |
| Barbaric ways and Paynim rout | J |
| And revels of old Samian men | D |
| O Chiron pipe your centaurs out | J |
| This garden by the dark Lane Cove | K |
| Shall spark before thy music dies | L |
| With silver sandals all thy gods | M |
| Be conjured from Ionian skies | L |
| Those poplars in a fluting trice | N |
| They'll charm into an olive grove | K |
| And dance a while in Paradise | N |
| Like men of fire above Lane Cove | K |
Kenneth Slessor
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