Old North Sydney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE AFGFHIJI EEAEEKLK DMIMINAO| They're shifting old North Sydney | A |
| Perhaps tis just as well | B |
| They re carting off the houses | C |
| Where the old folks used to dwell | B |
| Where only ghosts inhabit | D |
| They lay the old shops low | E |
| But the Spirit of North Sydney | A |
| It vanished long ago | E |
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| The Spirit of North Sydney | A |
| The good old time and style | F |
| It camped maybe at Crow s Nest | G |
| But only for a while | F |
| It left about the season | H |
| Or at the time perhaps | I |
| When old Inspector Cotter | J |
| Transferred his jokes and traps | I |
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| A brand new crowd is thronging | E |
| The brand new streets aglow | E |
| Where the Spirit of North Sydney | A |
| Would gossip long ago | E |
| They will not know to morrow | E |
| Tho twere but yesterday | K |
| Exactly how McMahon s Point | L |
| And its ferry used to lay | K |
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| The good old friendly spirit | D |
| Its sorrows would unfold | M |
| When householders were neighbours | I |
| And shop keeping was old | M |
| But now we re busy strangers | I |
| Our feelings we restrain | N |
| The Spirit of North Sydney | A |
| Shall never come again | O |
Henry Lawson
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