Laura Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECEFGDGD HIHJKDKD LMLNADAD EDEDFDFD OPOPQDQD DCFCRDRD DSDSCDFDDreaming to day in a forest green | A |
Where the great gums rake the sky | B |
My thoughts turn back to another scene | A |
And to old days long gone by | B |
To a land of youth and a youth's employ | C |
And to filch another's phrase | D |
To the men who were boys when I was a boy | C |
In the long gone Laura days | D |
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To a little town that nestles down | E |
By the hills of Beetaloo | C |
Where a youth dreamed dreams of fair renown | E |
And a man's ambition grew | F |
'Twas here his earliest songs were sung | G |
And he won his earliest praise | D |
From men who were young when he was young | G |
In the long gone Laura days | D |
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Spicer Stockdale Ballantyne | H |
Marrie Mitchell and Braund | I |
How many a right good pal of mine | H |
Has gone from that sunlit land | J |
How many a man how many a lad | K |
Whose head now slowly greys | D |
To a song grew glad as I grew glad | K |
In those long gone Laura days | D |
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Susman Sibly and Dr Cook | L |
Blume and Barrington | M |
Oh the lives of some are a long closed book | L |
But many a tale runs on | N |
Hollis and Harvey Chandler Green | A |
Are gone their various ways | D |
But I see them all in the olden scene | A |
Of the long gone Laura days | D |
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I see them still I see the town | E |
Under those scrub clad hills | D |
The shops where the quiet street runs down | E |
Wilson Rowland Bills | D |
Taylor Weste Felstead too | F |
Cole of the kindly ways | D |
And many other friends I knew | F |
In the long gone Laura days | D |
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And the names of some come slow to mind | O |
But the faces greet me clear | P |
And I hold them all as men most kind | O |
As I hold the old town dear | P |
And so in memory to the end | Q |
That old time picture stays | D |
For I see each face as a faithful friend | Q |
Of the far off Laura days | D |
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To the ladies all I lift a glass | D |
And toast with a right good will | C |
Every matron every lass who | F |
Shine in memory still | C |
Fair would I hymn them all in rhyme | R |
With soaring song of praise | D |
Friends of mine from a golden time | R |
In the long gone Laura days | D |
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When the evening sun slants through the gums | D |
By my forest rimmed abode | S |
Once more the old clear picture comes | D |
And my mind drifts down the road | S |
Back to the town by Beetaloo | C |
Where the Rocky River strays | D |
Back to the old kind friends I knew | F |
In the dear dead Laura days | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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