Walhalla Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFDFGHGH IJIJCKLK MNMNNONA| Dark lady of the laggard dawn | A |
| Hiding within her gully deep | B |
| Long have night's curtains been withdrawn | A |
| Before her earliest sun shaft's peep | B |
| And long before the sun sinks down | C |
| Eve's eager shadows creep her way | D |
| Committing to the sheltered town | C |
| Nought but a niggard glimpse of day | D |
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| And shy enough she seems these days | E |
| Who was long since belle of them all | F |
| When booted diggers went their way | D |
| Around about her ramparts tall | F |
| Full generous she was and proud | G |
| Proffering gold by ton on ton | H |
| Where once the toiling teaming crowd | G |
| Made most of her ungenerous fun | H |
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| For rich she was beyond belief | I |
| Full rich enough to make man's strife | J |
| But her youth like her day was brief | I |
| Too brief but filled with glamorous life | J |
| While her wealth spread her wide renown | C |
| While gold called to man's highest hopes | K |
| And urgent diggers crowded round | L |
| By these her mighty timbered slopes | K |
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| Now as calm days come and go | M |
| Peaceful her quiet hamlet sleeps | N |
| A full three thousand feet below | M |
| The far crests of her wooded steeps | N |
| And nought save gnarled old English trees | N |
| Stir to recall dead day passed on | O |
| To leave her with proud memories | N |
| Of great and golden youth long gone | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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