Brother, You-ll Take My Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF GHIHJKJKLFKF MHNHOIHICFKF PQRQSTSTCFNF UVWXYZMZKFKF| NOT to the sober and staid | A |
| Leading a quiet life | B |
| But to men whose paths are laid | A |
| Ever through storm and strife | B |
| Here is a song from me | C |
| Sent to the tragic West | D |
| Message of sympathy | C |
| To the hearts that can never rest | D |
| This is the song I send | E |
| Out to the Western land | F |
| Sinner and martyr and friend | E |
| Brother you ll take my hand | F |
| - | |
| To you who have loved and lost | G |
| To you whose souls have died | H |
| Cursing a fair false face | I |
| And the red warm lips that lied | H |
| Loved with a boyish love | J |
| With a love that was pure and true | K |
| That set one woman above | J |
| The world that was known to you | K |
| Eating your heart out now | L |
| Alone on a waste of sand | F |
| I have been played with too | K |
| Brother you ll take my hand | F |
| - | |
| To you who were loved too well | M |
| And who cast that love aside | H |
| When your vanity was replete | N |
| And your passion was satisfied | H |
| Haunted now day and night | O |
| Haunted in every place | I |
| By the eyes of a suicide | H |
| Set in a dead girl s face | I |
| Crouched in your misery | C |
| Out where the stars are grand | F |
| O I am haunted too | K |
| Brother you ll take my hand | F |
| - | |
| To you who had wealth or name | P |
| Friends love and a future fair | Q |
| And who sacrificed all for drink | R |
| And the nights of Leicester Square | Q |
| In by the drunken town | S |
| Out on the barren tramp | T |
| Pacing it up and down | S |
| Alone by the listening camp | T |
| Crouched in your agony | C |
| Hiding your eyes with your hand | F |
| I had the ball at my feet | N |
| Brother I understand | F |
| - | |
| There is a light for all | U |
| Hold up your head and live | V |
| Forgive the woman who wronged | W |
| And the dead girl will forgive | X |
| Brood not but work for good | Y |
| Work in the world of men | Z |
| Strong is the man who fell | M |
| And rose from the depths again | Z |
| There shall be peace for you | K |
| Sinners who win the land | F |
| I would fight upward too | K |
| Brother you ll take my hand | F |
Henry Lawson
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