The Aurora Australis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE HEHE IJIK LMLN OPOP QRQR STS GEGE| A radiance in the midnight sky | A |
| No white moon gave nor yellow star | B |
| We thought its red glow mounted high | A |
| Where fire and forest fought afar | B |
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| Half questioning if the township blazed | C |
| Perchance beyond the boundary hill | D |
| Then finding what it was we gazed | C |
| And wondered till we shivered chill | D |
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| And Fancy showed the sister glow | E |
| Of our Aurora sending lines | F |
| Of lustre forth to tint the snow | E |
| That lodges in Norwegian pines | F |
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| And South and North alternate swept | G |
| In vision past us to and fro | E |
| While stealthy winds of midnight crept | G |
| About us whispering fast and low | E |
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| The North whose star burns steadily | H |
| High set in heaven long ago | E |
| The South new risen on the sea | H |
| A tremulous horizon glow | E |
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| We mused Shall there be gallant guests | I |
| Within our polar hermitage | J |
| As on the shore where Franklin rests | I |
| And others named in Glory's page | K |
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| And Shall the light we look on blaze | L |
| Above such battles as have been | M |
| In other countries other days | L |
| The giants and the gods between | N |
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| Till one declared We live to night | O |
| In what shall be the poet's world | P |
| The lands 'neath our Aurora's light | O |
| Are as the rocks the Titans hurled | P |
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| From southern waters ice enthralled | Q |
| Year after year the rays that glance | R |
| Shall see the Desert shrink appalled | Q |
| Before the City's swift advance | R |
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| Shall see the precipice a stair | S |
| The river as a road And then | T |
| There shall be voices to declare | S |
| This work was wrought by manly men ' | - |
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| And so our South all stately swept | G |
| In vision past us to and fro | E |
| While stealthy winds of midnight crept | G |
| About us whispering fast and low | E |
Mary Hannay Foott
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