Noon On The Barrier Ranges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJKJK KKKKLMLMNONOPQPQRKRK STSTGRGRUKUKVWVWXYXZTHE saltbush steeped in drowsy stillness lies | A |
The mulga seems to swoon | B |
A hawk hangs poised within the burning skies | A |
And it is noon | B |
The river gums their leaf pores closed distil | C |
No fresh and cooling breath | D |
I stand upon an old hard bitten hill | C |
Wide plains beneath | E |
Here stood tall mountains when the world was young | F |
Their peaks uplifted high | G |
Here was the song of many waters sung | F |
In days gone by | G |
The monarch Change whose will no power withstands | H |
Vast lord of might | I |
At work by night and day with tireless hands | H |
Planed down their height | I |
With such to see and seeing ponder on | J |
Such mighty ruin wrought | K |
Why should we wonder at proud Babylon | J |
Brought down to nought | K |
Be not amazed though princes be displaced | K |
And kingdoms overcast | K |
Are empires more than mountains basalt based | K |
That they should last | K |
A sense of things unreal seen in dream | L |
Is over plain and heights | M |
The time worn rocks the crumbled earth the gleam | L |
Of mirage lights | M |
The horseman riding with a slackened rein | N |
Alone a silent man | O |
The weird dust sprites that whirl across the plain | N |
A little span | O |
The earth hued lizard on the sun baked rock | P |
Stretched out in stirless sleep | Q |
The far off drover and his dusty flock | P |
Of travelling sheep | Q |
The hidden birds that break the hush and call | R |
And sink again to rest | K |
The dust storm hanging like a crimson shawl | R |
Within the west | K |
The white quartz glittering on the umber track | S |
The claypans cracked and bare | T |
The poised hawk hanging like a menace black | S |
In middle air | T |
The wonder of the spacious plain and sky | G |
The splendour of it all | R |
The all that is not I so wide so high | G |
And I so small | R |
The sun swings on and up the western verge | U |
The great shawl cloud spreads wide | K |
Till sky and plain in oneness meet and merge | U |
Fierce lit red dyed | K |
A wind hell hot and surged with fury whips | V |
The trees upon its path | W |
And all is sudden turmoil and eclipse | V |
And cries of wrath | W |
A choking darkness draws across the sun | X |
And clouds his splendour o'er | Y |
And though but half his pilgrimage be done | X |
'Tis noon no more | Z |
Roderic Quinn
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