The Swamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGGHIIJKKFLLLA AMNNOPPQRRSTTUVVLWWL BCXLLLYYZA2A2B2LLC2X XLD2D2E2F2F2VBB| FOR one whole day and a long night through | A |
| We made our camp | B |
| In a she oak grove by a coastal swamp | C |
| Our tent gleamed white in the she oak trees | D |
| Whose falling hair | E |
| Made a soft brown mist in the sweet blue air | E |
| A sound subdued from their tresses rose | F |
| A moan a sigh | G |
| As of unseen seas when the breeze went by | G |
| 'Twas wattle time and the scented bloom | H |
| New lit and young | I |
| In a mass of gold from the still trees hung | I |
| There music dwelt and a splendour moved | J |
| Through all the day | K |
| From the green of dawn to the twilight gray | K |
| For careless ever like one who goes | F |
| Where Joyance leads | L |
| Sang the little reed bird in the tall green reeds | L |
| Blue swift and slender the dragonflies | L |
| A hawking flew | A |
| And a hawk hung poised in the burning blue | A |
| A crane slow flapping its great wings passed | M |
| Across the scene | N |
| And a parrot jewelled the leafy screen | N |
| In twos and threes from the hills around | O |
| The peewits came | P |
| And the brush flower burnt like a crimson flame | P |
| On ti tree trunk and on frond and log | Q |
| The lizards slept | R |
| While the sun moved west and the shadows crept | R |
| The sun moved west and the tall hills sent | S |
| Broad shadows east | T |
| And the reed bird's song in the reed beds ceased | T |
| Then fell a hush and within that hush | U |
| Rose clear and shrill | V |
| A cicada note on a distant hill | V |
| A note of farewell it seemed to us | L |
| Its singing bore | W |
| And the night came down and it sang no more | W |
| Night came with shadows and fitful gleams | L |
| And mist and damp | B |
| And our fire burned red by the coastal swamp | C |
| Then life not known of the daytime woke | X |
| That life that preys | L |
| On the feathered things of the leafy ways | L |
| We heard feet moving and velvet wings | L |
| On swamp and height | Y |
| And a dingo howling across the night | Y |
| As faces lit by the red camp fire | Z |
| We mused enthralled | A2 |
| Like a lone lost spirit a curlew called | A2 |
| Brown crickets sang in the moisty mould | B2 |
| And every breeze | L |
| Drew a moaning note from the she oak trees | L |
| And all night long as they swayed and moaned | C2 |
| Strange fancies woke | X |
| And we could not rest for the things they spoke | X |
| Thus much and more through the hours we saw | L |
| Thus much we heard | D2 |
| In that place of blossom and tree and bird | D2 |
| Since then gold wattles have bloomed and bloomed | E2 |
| And moons aloft | F2 |
| In the sky have wizened and waned full oft | F2 |
| And yet at times when the night is still | V |
| In dreams I tramp | B |
| Through the white sand dunes to that coastal camp | B |
Roderic Quinn
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