Old Town Types No.1 - The Old Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDDEF GHGGHIIE JEJJEJJEK LMLJNOOEK| Fierce on the wheat sown Mallee plain | A |
| The ruthless summer suns burned down | B |
| And dust storms heralding the rain | A |
| Swept thro' the street and on again | C |
| While tradesfolk cursed in the old white town | B |
| Of sand and line stone stoutly built | D |
| She'd lived to prosper and to wilt | D |
| Because as all wiseacres knew | E |
| 'They went and brought the railway thro' ' | F |
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| Deep voiced bewhiskered townsfolk these | G |
| Remnant of pioneering days | H |
| Full of high tales and memories | G |
| Of wild rough work and wilder sprees | G |
| When coach and teamster went their ways | H |
| When men pushed out to newer land | I |
| And cash came easy to the hand | I |
| And went The golden days men knew | E |
| 'Before that put that railway thro' ' | - |
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| Yet even in those days of stress | J |
| Or seeming stress the old town knew | E |
| Nothing of wnat or wretchedness | J |
| For wealth was there and work to bless | J |
| All men who sought them work to do | E |
| To me a child in those far years | J |
| Now as a time dimmed dream appears | J |
| The olden life that once I knew | E |
| After the railway wandered thro' | K |
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| Like myths in some long fabled tale | L |
| Figures and scenes to conjure with | M |
| They seem Yet 'spite the deepening veil | L |
| Their memories grow never stales | J |
| Big George the lumper Toll the smith | N |
| Long John the snob long have they slept | O |
| While suns burned down and dustorm swept | O |
| Across the Mallee plains they knew | E |
| Before men brought the railway thro' | K |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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