Country Roads ~ The New Chum Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEEGHIHHI JKJKLDMLD ENEENOPOO| A new chum went to ease his care | A |
| A many years ago | B |
| To loiter round Toolangi where | A |
| The stately blue gums grow | B |
| No bushcraft had he for his quest | C |
| No friend to be his guide | D |
| But sought the grade that served him best | C |
| From Yarra's plain to mountain crest | C |
| And crossed the Great Divide | D |
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| And round and round the hills he wound | E |
| No lilting tramp song sang he | F |
| First East then North then West ward bound | E |
| An easy grade at last he found | E |
| That led him to Toolangi | G |
| And tho' they vowed his trail a freak | H |
| The men that followed after | I |
| No straighter easier path might seek | H |
| Yet named the brook the New Chum Creek | H |
| With rough good humored laughter | I |
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| They followed on his trail for years | J |
| With many a stout bush load | K |
| Till came at last wise engineers | J |
| To build a goodly road | K |
| With plan and scale and instrument | L |
| They sought the mountain side | D |
| To find the way the new chum went | M |
| The best as clearly evident | L |
| To cross the Great Divide | D |
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| So round and round that hilly around | E |
| The pleasant track goes weaving | N |
| Who seek its hillsides blossom bound | E |
| By many a gum and fern tree crowned | E |
| Will find small cause for grieving | N |
| The New Chum Road 'tis called today | O |
| And they who travel round it | P |
| And drive along that verdant way | O |
| Will find it in their hearts to say | O |
| 'Good luck to him that found it ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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