Geelong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH JKJKLLK MNMNOON| The earliest lady in the land | A |
| Her pride of caste is high | B |
| Where blue Corio's gleaming strand | A |
| Dream 'neath a peaceful sky | B |
| She sat her down by her five towns | C |
| And garbed in best of homespun gowns | C |
| She watched life pass her by | B |
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| A leisured lady then and staid | D |
| She mused beside her Bay | E |
| While Barwon in the You Yangs shade | D |
| Droned thro' the drowsy day | E |
| But now comes unaccustomed stir | F |
| Since Henry to enliven her | F |
| Sent Lizzie here to stay | E |
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| A spiteful story men once spread | G |
| Who sought to work her wrong | H |
| About a woman who they said | G |
| Bore three sons hale and strong | H |
| And of the three they used to tell | I |
| Two still survived alive and well | I |
| The third was in Geelong | H |
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| Now she lives down that libelled past | J |
| Life quickens in her streets | K |
| Her mien grows brisk her trade is vast | J |
| With eager hands she meets | K |
| New ways and bustles with a will | L |
| But fat and comfortable still | L |
| Smiles upon all she greets | K |
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| Alert yet sensible and sane | M |
| As trade comes rushing in | N |
| She shrewdly turns it to her gain | M |
| With sturdy will to win | N |
| And still withal contrives to wear | O |
| A kindly and complacent air | O |
| And woollens next the skin | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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