Since I wrote an earlier poem about Sydney, I thought I would try one about another Australian city that wishes it was Sydney: Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. I have written it in the form of a ballad with an 8-6-8-6 rhyming scheme of 20 verses. Enjoy! (PS – In the 17th stanza, ’20ks’ is meant to be said as ‘twenty kays’. It is Australian slang for 20 kilometres an hour; this is the equivalent of driving at 12 miles per hour.)