Roderic Quinn

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Two Pictures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHDJKJLMNM KOFOFPKPQRSRSBTB

WE sat by an open windowA
And hearkened the sounds outsideB
The call of a lonely night birdC
And the croon of a making tideB
He was an island traderD
And talked of his sunlit homeE
Of the palms and the happy peopleF
And reef and beach and foamE
All that the trader told meG
Was wine to my soul and balmH
And I longed for the moonlit beachesI
And the coral and the palmH
He was browned with the sun and weatherD
How changed in mood and mienJ
From the days when the dark eyed womanK
Was throned in his heart a queenJ
He talked of the merry makersL
Of the flower crowned native girlsM
Their eyes with the lure of midnightN
And their teeth like island pearlsM
No word of the dark eyed womanK
But dance and song and dishO
The white of the branching coralF
The hues of the rainbow fishO
Gossip of sport and battleF
For love and faith and truthP
But never a word of the womanK
He loved in his careless youthP
The tide on the rocks was crooningQ
Sole sound the bird was stillR
And the night lay hot and breathlessS
On rock and tree and hillR
Two pictures were limned in the darknessS
And sad O sad was the tideB
A home in a sunlit islandT
A grave on a green hillsideB

Roderic Quinn



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