Echuca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDDC EFEFGGF HIHIJJI KLKLMML| A | |
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| With wood and wool for Adelaide | B |
| The paddle boats came down | C |
| When here this spritely river maid | B |
| Built up her river town | C |
| Flanked by the green of spreading gums | D |
| Where trade in waxing volume comes | D |
| Her industry to crown | C |
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| Those were the careless easy days | E |
| The days of old romance | F |
| When men were prone to casual ways | E |
| But she had marked her chance | F |
| As gateway of the north and east | G |
| To share one day the coming feast | G |
| Of this wide land's advance | F |
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| Now she grown old in count of years | H |
| Stays young who dreams her fate | I |
| Is to arise above her peers | H |
| And serve a sister State | I |
| Handmaid of kindlier kinship when | J |
| Madness and folly fall from men | J |
| And they with towns grow great | I |
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| The paddle boats with wool and wood | K |
| Churned lazily along | L |
| When peace seemed sure when life seemed good | K |
| Ere all a world went wrong | L |
| Strife wells yet valiant as of yore | M |
| Old Murray sings without her door | M |
| Of hope an ageless song | L |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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