A Voice From The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGI JKLKDMDM NOPOQRSR TUTUVWXW YZYZA2SA2S KB2C2B2VJD2J YHSIE2SE2S| On western plain and eastern hill | A |
| Where once my fancy ranged | B |
| The station hands are riding still | A |
| And they are little changed | B |
| But I have lost in London gloom | C |
| The glory of the day | D |
| The grand perfume of wattle bloom | C |
| Is faint and far away | D |
| Brown faces under broad brimmed hats | E |
| The grip of wiry hands | F |
| The gallops on the frosty flats | E |
| Seem dreams of other lands | F |
| The camp fire and the stars that blaze | G |
| Above the mystic plain | H |
| Are but the thoughts of vanished days | G |
| That never come again | I |
| - | |
| The evening star I seldom view | J |
| That led me on to roam | K |
| I never see the morning star | L |
| That used to draw me home | K |
| But I have often longed for day | D |
| To hide the few I see | M |
| Because they only point and say | D |
| Most bitter things to me | M |
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| I wear my life on pavement stones | N |
| That drag me ever down | O |
| A paltry slave to little things | P |
| By custom chained to town | O |
| I ve lost the strength to strike alone | Q |
| The heart to do and dare | R |
| I mind the day I d roll my swag | S |
| And tramp to God knows where | R |
| - | |
| When I should wait I wander out | T |
| When I should go I bide | U |
| I scarcely dare to think about | T |
| The days when I could ride | U |
| I would not mount before his eyes | V |
| Straight Bushman tall and tan | W |
| I mind the day when I stood up | X |
| And fought him like a man | W |
| - | |
| I mind the time when I was shy | Y |
| To meet the brown Bush girls | Z |
| I ve lunched with lords since then and I | Y |
| Have been at home with earls | Z |
| I learned to smile and learned to bow | A2 |
| And lie to ladies gay | S |
| But to a gaunt Bushwoman now | A2 |
| I d not know what to say | S |
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| And if I sought her hard bare home | K |
| From scenes of show and sham | B2 |
| I d sit all ill at ease and fell | C2 |
| The poor weak thing I am | B2 |
| I could not meet her hopeless eyes | V |
| That look one through and through | J |
| The haggard woman of the past | D2 |
| Who once thought I was true | J |
| - | |
| But nought on earth can last for aye | Y |
| And wild with care and pain | H |
| Some day by chance I ll break away | S |
| And seek the Bush again | I |
| And find awhile from bitter years | E2 |
| The rest the Bush can bring | S |
| And hear perhaps with truer ears | E2 |
| The songs it has to sing | S |
Henry Lawson
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