Bendigo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCCB DEDDEFFE EGEEGHHG IJIFJKKJ LMNLMMMM| A golden maid whose golden voice | A |
| Calls to the northern lands | B |
| Of riches she has had her choice | A |
| Twin treasures to make men rejoice | A |
| Came easy to her hands | B |
| The golden harvest of broad fields | C |
| Or that dark gift of sudden yields | C |
| Won from her golden sands | B |
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| But men have scorned her worthier pride | D |
| In rich and fruitful soil | E |
| And spreading desolation wide | D |
| Ranged all her verdant countryside | D |
| To ravage and despoil | E |
| And now grey wastes of tortured earth | F |
| Await the glory of rebirth | F |
| Thro' nature's patient toil | E |
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| She has the wish she has the will | E |
| To gather beauty round | G |
| Though gold's fierce lure stays with her still | E |
| She lives to plan and strive until | E |
| Springs from this barren ground | G |
| Earth's only treasure scorned of yore | H |
| And smiling verdure clothes once more | H |
| Full many a bare bleak mound | G |
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| She guards the gateway of the north | I |
| The broad lands of the sun | J |
| Hospitably her hand goes forth | I |
| Eager to vindicate the worth | F |
| Of happier tasks begun | J |
| And in gay gardens to express | K |
| A newer urge to loveliness | K |
| And kinder virtues won | J |
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| A virile lass in no wise strange | L |
| Of true Australian breed | M |
| Where drab days into sunlight charge | N |
| Across the Great Dividing Range | L |
| She scatters now the seed | M |
| That shall bring yields a thousandfold | M |
| When gardens count for more than gold | M |
| And peace outvalues greed | M |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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