Give Yourself A Show (new Years Eve) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FFBB GGBB HHBB| To my fellow sinners all who in hope and doubt | A |
| Through the Commonwealth to night watch the Old Year out | A |
| New Year's Resolutions are jerry built I know | B |
| But I want to say to you Give yourselves a show | B |
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| You who drink for drinking's sake love for lust alone | C |
| Thinking heaven is a myth and the world your own | C |
| Dancing gaily down to hell in the devil's dance | D |
| This I have to say to you Give your souls a chance | D |
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| You who drink because of shame that you think will last | E |
| Or because of wrong done you trouble in the past | E |
| Nothing left to live for now you will say I know | B |
| But you have your own self yet give that self a show | B |
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| You who want all things on earth money love and fame | F |
| Having the advantage of worldly place or name | F |
| You who have more than you want even than you know | B |
| In the glorious New Year give someone else a show | B |
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| You the mischief makers all who in secret glee | G |
| Love to tell the villainies of a scamp like me | G |
| There are things he'll never tell things you'll never know | B |
| Look into your own lives first give the man a show | B |
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| You the politician who for jealousy or gold | H |
| Or for mean ambition sell or see your country sold | H |
| Pandering to the hollow crowd toadying to the low | B |
| For shame's sake banish selfishness give your land a show | B |
Henry Lawson
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