Noon On The Barrier Ranges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJKJK KKKKLMLMNONOPQPQRKRK STSTGRGRUKUKVWVWXYXZ

THE saltbush steeped in drowsy stillness liesA
The mulga seems to swoonB
A hawk hangs poised within the burning skiesA
And it is noonB
The river gums their leaf pores closed distilC
No fresh and cooling breathD
I stand upon an old hard bitten hillC
Wide plains beneathE
Here stood tall mountains when the world was youngF
Their peaks uplifted highG
Here was the song of many waters sungF
In days gone byG
The monarch Change whose will no power withstandsH
Vast lord of mightI
At work by night and day with tireless handsH
Planed down their heightI
With such to see and seeing ponder onJ
Such mighty ruin wroughtK
Why should we wonder at proud BabylonJ
Brought down to noughtK
Be not amazed though princes be displacedK
And kingdoms overcastK
Are empires more than mountains basalt basedK
That they should lastK
A sense of things unreal seen in dreamL
Is over plain and heightsM
The time worn rocks the crumbled earth the gleamL
Of mirage lightsM
The horseman riding with a slackened reinN
Alone a silent manO
The weird dust sprites that whirl across the plainN
A little spanO
The earth hued lizard on the sun baked rockP
Stretched out in stirless sleepQ
The far off drover and his dusty flockP
Of travelling sheepQ
The hidden birds that break the hush and callR
And sink again to restK
The dust storm hanging like a crimson shawlR
Within the westK
The white quartz glittering on the umber trackS
The claypans cracked and bareT
The poised hawk hanging like a menace blackS
In middle airT
The wonder of the spacious plain and skyG
The splendour of it allR
The all that is not I so wide so highG
And I so smallR
The sun swings on and up the western vergeU
The great shawl cloud spreads wideK
Till sky and plain in oneness meet and mergeU
Fierce lit red dyedK
A wind hell hot and surged with fury whipsV
The trees upon its pathW
And all is sudden turmoil and eclipseV
And cries of wrathW
A choking darkness draws across the sunX
And clouds his splendour o'erY
And though but half his pilgrimage be doneX
'Tis noon no moreZ

Roderic Quinn



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