Lilydale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCCDD EFEEFGGHH I IIJKKLL AAAAAFFFF| Three hills lead on to Lilydale | A |
| Where runs the White Horse Road | B |
| Three slopes dip down into the vale | A |
| The placid vale of Lilydale | A |
| That somnolent abode | B |
| Of dreams that compass olden days | C |
| Of tranquil life and easy ways | C |
| Where transient beauty tints her trees | D |
| With golden Autumn's harmonies | D |
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| For Lilydale is now a dame | E |
| Unhurried and content | F |
| Traditions that attend her name | E |
| Serve her from all she needs of fame | E |
| Who scorns the brandishment | F |
| Of modern haste and modern show | G |
| And as the speeding motors go | G |
| Down thro' her street to hasten by | H |
| She marks them with a sleepy sigh | H |
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| Amid her grazing kine she goes | I |
| The 'milkers' 'stores' and 'fats ' | - |
| A cow she venerates and knows | I |
| How well to hoard the wealth that flows | I |
| From her rich river flats | J |
| One passion lures her from her course | K |
| Her great love for a likely horse | K |
| Tempting to revels now and then | L |
| With her twin dreamer Yarra Glen | L |
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| Three hills lead on to Lilydale | A |
| Three slopes dip down below | A |
| And every hill and every vale | A |
| Tell once more the olden tale | A |
| Of days when life moved slow | A |
| Save when the dashing fours in hand | F |
| Came clattering to this new found land | F |
| And wakened this bucolic spot | F |
| To life's high fever long forgot | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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