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Fragments Pts 1, 11, 111 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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These broken lines for pardon crave	A
I cannot end the song with art	B
My grief is gray and old her grave	A
Is dug so deep within my heart	B
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I Her Last Day	C
IT was a day of sombre heat	D
The still dense air was void of sound	E
And life no wing of bird did beat	D
A little breeze through it the ground	E
Was like live ashes to the feet	D
From the black hills that loomed around	E
The valley many a sudden spire	F
Of flame shot up and writhed and curled	G
And sank again for heaviness	H
And heavy seemed to men that day	C
The burden of the weary world	G
For evermore the sky did press	H
Closer upon the earth that lay	C
Fainting beneath as one in dire	F
Dreams of the night upon whose breast	I
Sits a black phantom of unrest	I
That holds him down The earth and sky	J
Appeared unto the troubled eye	J
A roof of smoke a floor of fire	K
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There was no water in the land	L
Deep in the night of each ravine	M
Men vainly searching for it found	E
Dry hollows in the gaping ground	E
Like sockets where clear eyes had been	N
Now burnt out with a burning brand	L
There was no water in the land	L
But the salt sea tide that did roll	O
Far past the places where till then	P
The sweet streams met and flung it back	Q
The beds of little brooks that stole	O
In spring time down each ferny glen	P
And rippled over rock and sand	L
Were drier than a cattle track	Q
A dull strange languor of disease	H
That ever with the heat increased	R
Fell upon man and bird and beast	R
The thin flanked cattle gasped for breath	S
The birds dropped dead from drooping trees	H
And men who drank the muddy lees	H
From each near dry though deep dug well	T
Grew faint and over all things fell	T
A heavy stupor dank as Death	S
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Fierce Nature glaring with a face	H
Of savage scorn at my despair	U
Withered my heart From cone to base	H
The hills were full of hollow eyes	H
That rayed out darkness dead and dull	V
Gray rocks grinned under ridges bare	U
Like dry teeth in a mouldered skull	V
And ghastly gum tree trunks did loom	W
Out of black clefts and rifts of gloom	W
As sheeted spectres that arise	H
From yawning graves at dead of night	X
To fill the living with affright	X
And like to witches foul that bare	U
Their withered arms and bend and cast	X
Dread curses on the sleeping lands	H
In awful legends of the past	X
Red gums with outstretched bloody hands	H
Shook maledictions in the air	U
Fear was around me everywhere	U
The wrinkled foreheads of the rocks	H
Frowned on me and methought I saw	H
Deep down in dismal gulfs of awe	Y
Where gray death adders have their lair	U
With the fiend bat the flying fox	H
And dim sun rays down groping far	Z
Pale as a dead man s fingers are	Z
The grisly image of Decay	C
That at the root of Life doth gnaw	H
Sitting alone upon a throne	A2
Of rotting skull and bleaching bone	A2
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There is an end to all our griefs	H
Little the red worm of the grave	A
Will vex us when our days are done	B2
So changed my thought up gazing then	P
On gray piled stones that seemed the cairns	H
Of dead and long forgotten chiefs	H
The men of old the poor wild men	P
Who under dim lights fought a brave	A
Sad fight of Life where hope was none	B2
In the vague voiceless far off years	H
It changed again to present pain	C2
And I saw Sorrow everywhere	U
In blackened trees and rust red ferns	H
Blasted by bush fires and the sun	B2
And by the salt flood salt as tears	H
Where the wild apple trees hung low	D2
And evermore stooped down to stare	U
At their drowned shadows in the wave	A
Wringing their knotted hands of woe	D2
And the dark swamp oaks row on row	D2
Lined either bank a sombre train	C2
Of mourners with down streaming hair	U
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II Sunset	X
THE DAY and its delights are done	B2
So all delights and days expire	F
Down in the dim sad West the sun	B2
Is dying like a dying fire	K
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The fiercest lances of his light	X
Are spent I watch him droop and die	X
Like a great king who falls in fight	X
None dared the duel of his eye	X
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Living but now his eye is dim	E2
The eyes of all may stare at him	E2
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How lovely in his strength at morn	F2
He orbed along the burning blue	G2
The blown gold of his flying hair	U
Was tangled in green tress d trees	H
And netted in the river sand	X
In gleaming links of amber clear	H2
But all his shining locks are shorn	F2
His brow of its bright crown is bare	U
The golden sceptre leaves his hand	X
And deeper darker grows the hue	G2
Of the dim purple draperies	H
And cloudy banners round his bier	I2
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O beautiful rose hearted dawn	J2
O splendid noon of gold and blue	G2
Is this wan glimmer all of you	G2
Where are the blush and bloom ye gave	A
To laughing land and smiling sea	H
The swift lights that did flash and shiver	K
In diamond rain upon the river	K
And set a star in each blue wave	A
Where are the merry lights and shadows	H
That danced through wood and over lawn	J2
And flew across the dewy meadows	H
Like white nymphs chased by satyr lovers	H
Faded and perished utterly	H
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All delicate and all rich colour	K
In flower and cloud on lawn and lea	H
On butterfly and bird and bee	H
A little space and all are gone	J2
And darkness like a raven hovers	H
Above the death bed of the day	C
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So when the long last night draws on	K2
And all the world grows ghastly gray	C
We see our beautiful and brave	A
Wither and watch with heavy sighs	H
The life light dying in their eyes	H
The love light slowly fading out	X
Leaving no faint hope in their place	H
But only on each dear wan face	H
The shadow of a weary doubt	X
The ashen pallor of the grave	A
O gracious morn and golden noon	L2
With what fair dreams did ye depart	X
Beloved so well and lost so soon	L2
I could not fold you to my breast	X
I could not hide you in my heart	X
I saw the watchers in the West	X
Sad shrouded shapes with hands that wring	M2
And phantom fingers beckoning	M2
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III Years After	K
Fade off the ridges rosy light	X
Fade slowly from the last gray height	X
And leave no gloomy cloud to grieve	N2
The heart of this enchanted eve	N2
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All things beneath the still sky seem	O2
Bound by the spell of a sweet dream	O2
In the dusk forest dreamingly	H
Droops slowly down each plum d head	X
The river flowing softly by	X
Dreams of the sea the quiet sea	H
Dreams of the unseen stars and I	X
Am dreaming of the dreamless dead	X
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The river has a silken sheen	M
But red rays of the sunset stain	C2
Its pictures from the steep shore caught	X
Till shades of rock and fern and tree	H
Glow like the figures on a pane	C2
Of some old church by twilight seen	M
Or like the rich devices wrought	X
In mediaeval tapestry	H
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All lonely in a drifting boat	X
Through shine and shade I float and float	X
Dreaming and dreaming till I seem	O2
Part of the picture and the dream	O2
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There is no sound to break the spell	H
No voice of bird or stir of bough	P2
Only the lisp of waters wreathing	M2
In little ripples round the prow	P2
And a low air like Silence breathing	M2
That hardly dusks the sleepy swell	H
Whereon I float to that strange deep	Q2
That sighs upon the shores of Sleep	Q2
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But in the silent heaven blooming	M2
Behold the wondrous sunset flower	K
That blooms and fades within the hour	K
The flower of fantasy perfuming	M2
With subtle melody of scent	X
The blue aisles of the firmament	X
For colour music scent are one	B2
From deeps of air to airless heights	H
Lo how he sweeps the splendid sun	B2
His burning lyre of many lights	H
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See the clear golden lily blowing	M2
It shines as shone thy gentle soul	H
O my most sweet when from the goal	H
Of life far gazing thou didst see	H
While Death still feared to touch thine eyes	H
Where such immortal light was glowing	M2
The vision of eternity	H
The pearly gates of Paradise	H
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Now richer hues the skies illume	O2
The pale gold blushes into bloom	O2
Delicate as the flowering	M2
Of first love in the tender spring	M2
Of Life when love is wizardry	H
That over narrow days can throw	K
A glamour and a glory so	K
Did thine my Beautiful for me	H
So long ago so long ago	K
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So long ago	K