Clinging Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBCCBBBBB DDBBBBB EEBBBBB FGBBBBB HHBBBBB| When you see a man come walking down through George Street loose and free | A |
| Suit of saddle tweed and soft shirt and a belt and cabbagetree | A |
| With the careless swing and carriage and the confidence you lack | B |
| There is freedom in Australia he s a man that s clinging back | B |
| Clingin back | B |
| Holdin back | B |
| To the old things and the bold things clinging back | B |
| When you see a woman riding as I saw one ride to day | C |
| Down the street to Milson s Ferry on a big upstanding bay | C |
| With her body gently swaying to the horse shoes click a clack | B |
| You might lift your hat with caution she s a girl who s clinging back | B |
| Clinging back | B |
| Swinging back | B |
| To the old things and the bold things clinging back | B |
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| When you see a rich man pulling on the harbour in a boat | D |
| With the motor launches racing till they scarcely seem to float | D |
| And the little skiff is lifting to his muscles tense and slack | B |
| You say Go it to a sane man He s a man that s clinging back | B |
| Clinging back | B |
| Swinging back | B |
| To the old things and the bold things clinging back | B |
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| When you see two lovers strolling arm in arm or round the waist | E |
| And they never seem to loiter and they never seem to haste | E |
| But indifferent to others take the rock or bush hid track | B |
| You be sure about their future they re a pair that s clinging back | B |
| Clinging back | B |
| Holding back | B |
| To the old things and the bold things clinging back | B |
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| I a weary picture writer in a time that s cruel plain | F |
| Have been clinging all too sadly to what shall not come again | G |
| To what shall not come and should not for the silver s mostly black | B |
| And the gold a dull red copper by the springs where I held back | B |
| Clinging back | B |
| Holding back | B |
| To the old things and the cold things clinging back | B |
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| But if you should read a writer sending truths home every time | H |
| While his every point goes ringing like the grandest prose in rhyme | H |
| Though he writes the people s grammar and he spreads the people s clack | B |
| He is stronger than the Public and he ll jerk the mad world back | B |
| Yank it back | B |
| Hold it back | B |
| For the love of little children hold it back | B |
Henry Lawson
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