Dandenong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP| Hard by the gate way of the East | A |
| She dips within her market square | B |
| With provender for man and beast | A |
| And goods and chattels round her there | B |
| A cheery buxom market dame | C |
| A well filled basket on her arm | D |
| She calls her wares and makes due claim | C |
| Alike on factory and farm | D |
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| The neutral ground of her domain | E |
| Is loud with talk of crops and herds | F |
| Where hucksters bargain for their gain | E |
| With judgment keen and weighted words | F |
| Where sunburnt farmers slow of speech | G |
| Match wits with dapper city men | H |
| While she impartially from each | G |
| Takes toll and bids them come again | H |
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| With talk of rise and fall in stock | I |
| With keen eyes for a horse's points | J |
| The shrewd eyed dealers hither flock | I |
| To peer in mouths and handle joints | J |
| And shake their heads and turn away | K |
| Then back again to name the price | L |
| And jokes are mixed on market day | K |
| With loud mouthed praise and sage advice | L |
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| Hard by the Western gate she sits | M |
| Between the farmland and the town | N |
| To gather all the scraps and bits | M |
| Of gossip that fly up and down | N |
| And these she turns to her own good | O |
| A comfortable dame and keen | P |
| Who earns an honest livelihood | O |
| As town and country go between | P |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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