39 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED FFFG HIJIKBFB FFFG LMLMANFN FFFG OPLPKQCQ FFFG| I only woke this morning | A |
| To find the world is fair | B |
| I m going on for forty | C |
| With scarcely one grey hair | B |
| I m going on for forty | C |
| Where man s strong life begins | D |
| With scarce a sign of crows feet | E |
| In spite of all my sins | D |
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| Then here s the living Forties | F |
| The Forties The Forties | F |
| Then here s the living Forties | F |
| We re good for ten years more | G |
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| The teens were black and bitter | H |
| A smothered boyhood s grave | I |
| A farm drudge in the drought time | J |
| A weary workshop slave | I |
| But twenty years have laid them | K |
| And all the world is fair | B |
| We ll find time in the Forties | F |
| To have some boyhood there | B |
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| Then here s the wide free Forties | F |
| The Forties The Forties | F |
| Then here s the wide free Forties | F |
| We re good for ten years more | G |
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| The twenties they were noble | L |
| The bravest years I think | M |
| Twas man to man in trouble | L |
| In working and in drink | M |
| Twas man to man in fighting | A |
| For money or for praise | N |
| And we ll find in the Forties | F |
| Some more Bohemian days | N |
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| Then here s the wiser Forties | F |
| The Forties The Forties | F |
| Then here s the wiser Forties | F |
| We re good for ten years more | G |
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| The thirties were the fate years | O |
| I fought behind the scenes | P |
| The thirties were more cruel | L |
| And blacker than the teens | P |
| I held them not but bore them | K |
| They were no years of mine | Q |
| But they are going from me | C |
| For I am thirty nine | Q |
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| So here s the stronger Forties | F |
| The Forties The Forties | F |
| And here s the good old Forties | F |
| We re good for ten years more | G |
Henry Lawson
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