Ballarat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCBC ADADEFFF FGFGFHFH AIAJAKAK| The digger's cultured daughter | A |
| Her youth was wildly free | B |
| Now by the placid water | A |
| Of tree girt Wendouree | A |
| She walks a gracious lady | B |
| Where sculptured beauty gleams | C |
| By verdant paths and shady | B |
| And dreams her golden dreams | C |
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| Her father was a digger | A |
| Bearded and blunt and crude | D |
| His hand quick to the trigger | A |
| Should tyranny intrude | D |
| With lifts of sudden riches | E |
| He heaped his hoyden lass | F |
| Whose flowering new bewitches | F |
| With beauty all who pass | F |
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| For she has sown her gardens | F |
| To hide the scars of greed | G |
| And where the old dump hardens | F |
| Springs many a fruitful seed | G |
| And as she gathers graces | F |
| In loveliness to last | H |
| Serenity replaces | F |
| A turbulence long past | H |
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| Her father was a miner | A |
| Great in his day and age | I |
| But here to ideals finer | A |
| She shapes her heritage | J |
| Until it spreads in glamor | A |
| A wonder to behold | K |
| Of peace come after clamor | A |
| Of grace that followed gold | K |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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