Sydney Cove, 1788 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN| SHE sat on the rocks her fireless eyes | A |
| Teased and tired with the thoughts of yore | B |
| And paining her sense were alien skies | A |
| An alien sea and an alien shore | B |
| In gold green dusks she glimpsed new flowers | C |
| And the glittering wings of gleaming birds | D |
| But haunting her still were English bowers | C |
| And the clinging sweetness of old love words | D |
| A soft breeze murmured of unknown shores | E |
| And laughed as it touched her with fingers light | F |
| But she mourned the more for the wind that roars | E |
| Down sullen coasts on a northern night | F |
| Like topaz gems on a sable dome | G |
| The stranger stars stole shyly forth | H |
| She saw no stars like the stars of home | G |
| That burned white fired in the frosty north | H |
| A restless sea was at her feet | I |
| A restless sea of darkest blue | J |
| The lights burned dimly on The Fleet | I |
| And these were all the ships it knew | J |
| She watched the dark tides rise and fall | K |
| The lion tides that night and noon | L |
| Range round the world and moan and call | K |
| In sad sea voices to the moon | L |
| Thus while she watched they ebbed and flowed | M |
| Till last with sudden splendour Day | N |
| Lit all the scene with gold and showed | M |
| An arrow black on a garb of grey | N |
Roderic Quinn
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