Wollongong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIEE JJKKLLMMEE NOOOPPEEEE QQRRSSOOEE| Let me talk of years evanished let me harp upon the time | A |
| When we trod these sands together in our boyhood's golden prime | A |
| Let me lift again the curtain while I gaze upon the past | B |
| As the sailor glances homewards watching from the topmost mast | B |
| Here we rested on the grasses in the glorious summer hours | C |
| When the waters hurried seaward fringed with ferns and forest flowers | C |
| When our youthful eyes rejoicing saw the sunlight round the spray | D |
| In a rainbow wreath of splendour glittering underneath the day | D |
| Sunlight flashing past the billows falling cliffs and crags among | E |
| Clothing hopeful friendship basking on the shores of Wollongong | E |
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| Echoes of departed voices whispers from forgotten dreams | F |
| Come across my spirit like the murmurs of melodious streams | F |
| Here we both have wandered nightly when the moonshine cold and pale | G |
| Shimmer'd on the cone of Keira sloping down the sleeping vale | G |
| When the mournful waves came sobbing sobbing on the furrowed shore | H |
| Like to lone hearts weeping over loved ones they shall see no more | H |
| While the silver ripples stealing past the shells and slimy stones | I |
| Broke beneath the caverns dying one by one in muffled moans | I |
| As the fragrant wood winds roaming with a fitful cadence sung | E |
| 'Mid the ghostly branches belting round the shores of Wollongong | E |
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| Lovely faces flit before us friendly forms around us stand | J |
| Gleams of well remembered gladness trip along the yellow sand | J |
| Here the gold green waters glistened underneath our dreaming gaze | K |
| As the lights of Heaven slanted down the pallid ether haze | K |
| Here the mossy rock pool like to one that stirs himself in sleep | L |
| Trembled every moment at the roaring of the restless deep | L |
| While the stately vessels swooping to the breezes fair and free | M |
| Passed away like sheeted spectres fading down the distant sea | M |
| And our wakened fancies sparkled and our soul born thoughts we strung | E |
| Into joyous lyrics singing with the waves of Wollongong | E |
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| Low breathed strains of sweetest music float about my raptured ears | N |
| Angel eyes are glancing at me hopeful smiles and happy tears | O |
| Merry feet go scaling up the old and thunder shattered steeps | O |
| And the billows clamber after and the surge to ocean leaps | O |
| Scattered into fruitless showers falling where the breakers roll | P |
| Baffled like the aspirations of a proud ambitious soul | P |
| Far off sounds of silvery laughter through the hollow caverns ring | E |
| While my heart leaps up to catch reviving pleasure on the wing | E |
| And the years come trooping backward and we both again are young | E |
| Walking side by side upon the lovely shores of Wollongong | E |
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| Fleeting dreams and idle fancies Lo the gloomy after Age | Q |
| Creepeth like an angry shadow over life's eventful stage | Q |
| Joy is but a mocking phantom throwing out its glitter brief | R |
| Short lived as the western sunbeam dying from the cedar leaf | R |
| Here we linger lonely hearted musing over visions fled | S |
| While the sickly twilight withers from the arches overhead | S |
| Semblance of a bliss delusive are those dull receding rays | O |
| Semblance of the faint reflection left to us of other days | O |
| Days of vernal hope and gladness hours when the blossoms sprung | E |
| Round the feet of blithesome ramblers by the shores of Wollongong | E |
Henry Kendall
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