Do You Think That I Do Not Know? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE IJIJKEKE LMLMNEOE PQPQRESE TUTUVEVE AWAWXEYE| They say that I never have written of love | A |
| As a writer of songs should do | B |
| They say that I never could touch the strings | C |
| With a touch that is firm and true | B |
| They say I know nothing of women and men | D |
| In the fields where Love's roses grow | E |
| And they say I must write with a halting pen | D |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
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| When the love burst came like an English Spring | F |
| In days when our hair was brown | G |
| And the hem of her skirt was a sacred thing | F |
| And her hair was an angel's crown | G |
| The shock when another man touched her arm | H |
| Where the dancers sat round in a row | E |
| The hope and despair and the false alarm | H |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
| - | |
| By the arbour lights on the western farms | I |
| You remember the question put | J |
| While you held her warm in your quivering arms | I |
| And you trembled from head to foot | J |
| The electric shock from her finger tips | K |
| And the murmuring answer low | E |
| The soft shy yielding of warm red lips | K |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
| - | |
| She was buried at Brighton where Gordon sleeps | L |
| When I was a world away | M |
| And the sad old garden its secret keeps | L |
| For nobody knows to day | M |
| She left a message for me to read | N |
| Where the wild wide oceans flow | E |
| Do you know how the heart of a man can bleed | O |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
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| I stood by the grave where the dead girl lies | P |
| When the sunlit scenes were fair | Q |
| And the white clouds high in the autumn skies | P |
| And I answered the message there | Q |
| But the haunting words of the dead to me | R |
| Shall go wherever I go | E |
| She lives in the Marriage that Might Have Been | S |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
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| They sneer or scoff and they pray or groan | T |
| And the false friend plays his part | U |
| Do you think that the blackguard who drinks alone | T |
| Knows aught of a pure girl's heart | U |
| Knows aught of the first pure love of a boy | V |
| With his warm young blood aglow | E |
| Knows aught of the thrill of the world old joy | V |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
| - | |
| They say that I never have written of love | A |
| They say that my heart is such | W |
| That finer feelings are far above | A |
| But a writer may know too much | W |
| There are darkest depths in the brightest nights | X |
| When the clustering stars hang low | E |
| There are things it would break his strong heart to write | Y |
| Do you think that I do not know | E |
Henry Lawson
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