Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEFGFGHIJKLKLM DDM| 'THESE are the floating berries of the night | A |
| They drop their harvest in dark alleys down | B |
| Softly far down on groves of Venus or on a little town | B |
| Forgotten at the world's edge and O their light | A |
| Unlocks all closed things eyes and mouths and drifts | C |
| Quietly over kisses in a golden rain | D |
| Drowning their flight till suddenly the Cyprian lifts | C |
| Her small white face to the moon then hides again | E |
| 'They are the warm candles of beauty hung in blessing on high | F |
| Poised like bright comrades on boughs of night above | G |
| They are the link boys of Queen Venus running out of the sky | F |
| Spilling their friendly radiance on all her ways of love | G |
| 'Should the girl's eyes be lit with swimming fire | H |
| O do not kiss it away it is a star a star ' | I |
| So cried the passionate poet to his great romantic guitar | J |
| But I was beating off the stars gazing not rhyming | K |
| I saw the bottomless black cups of space | L |
| Between their clusters and the planets climbing | K |
| Dizzily in sick airs and desired to hide my face | L |
| But I could not escape those tunnels of nothingness | M |
| The cracks in the spinning Cross nor hold my brain | D |
| From rushing for ever down that terrible lane | D |
| Infinity's trap door eternal and merciless | M |
Kenneth Slessor
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