At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KLKL| THE night long clamour of winds grew still | A |
| The forest rested its foes withdrawn | B |
| On sounding ocean and silent hill | A |
| There crept a sense of the coming dawn | B |
| A bird awoke on a leaning limb | C |
| And fluttered its plumes a moment's space | D |
| Dark purple lay on the sea's far rim | C |
| The sky grew pale as a dying face | D |
| Then all the trees and the rocks and heights | E |
| With wondering faces watched the East | F |
| It seemed an altar hung with lights | E |
| And waiting for a vestured priest | F |
| And in that intimate first hour | G |
| When land and sea rejoiced as one | H |
| And Nature like an opening flower | G |
| Gave incense came the burning sun | H |
| Yet while the hour of gold went by | I |
| I saw through all its pageantry | J |
| The vast indifference of the sky | I |
| The heartless beauty of the sea | J |
| For wet and wan and cold and sped | K |
| Beyond the breakers' reach of pearl | L |
| There lay a strong man drowned and dead | K |
| And in his arms a drowned white girl | L |
Roderic Quinn
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