Break O- Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCECE FGFGFDFD HAHAIEJE KEKECDCD CFCF| You love me you say and I think you do | A |
| But I know so many who don t | B |
| And how can I say I ll be true to you | A |
| When I know very well that I won t | B |
| I have journeyed long and my goal is far | C |
| I love but I cannot bide | D |
| For as sure as rises the morning star | C |
| With the break of day I ll ride | D |
| I was doomed to ruin or doomed to mar | C |
| The home wherever I stay | E |
| But I ll think of you as the morning star | C |
| And they call me Break o Day | E |
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| They well might have named me the Fall o Night | F |
| For drear is the track I mark | G |
| But I love fair girls and I love the light | F |
| For I and my tribe were dark | G |
| You may love me dear for a day and night | F |
| You may cast your life aside | D |
| But as sure as the morning star shines bright | F |
| With the break of day I ll ride | D |
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| There was never a lover so proud and kind | H |
| There was never a friend so true | A |
| But the song of my life I have left behind | H |
| In the heart of a girl like you | A |
| There was never so deep or cruel a wrong | I |
| In the land that is far away | E |
| There was never so bitter a broken heart | J |
| That rode at the break of day | E |
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| God bless you dear with your red gold hair | K |
| And your pitying eyes of grey | E |
| Oh my heart forbids that a star so fair | K |
| Should be marred by the Break o Day | E |
| Live on my girl as the girl you are | C |
| Be a good and a true man s bride | D |
| For as sure as beckons the evening star | C |
| With the fall o night I ll ride | D |
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| I was born to ruin or born to mar | C |
| The home wherever I light | F |
| Oh I wish that you were the Evening Star | C |
| And that I were the Fall o Night | F |
Henry Lawson
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