He-s Gone To England For A Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED FAFAGHGH IJIJKLML| HE S GONE to England for a wife | A |
| Among the ladies there | B |
| And yet I know a lass he deemed | C |
| The rarest of the rare | B |
| He s gone to England for a wife | A |
| And rich and proud is he | D |
| But he was poor and toiled for bread | E |
| When first he courted me | D |
| - | |
| He said I was the best on earth | F |
| He said I was his life | A |
| And now he thinks of noble birth | F |
| And seeks a lady wife | A |
| He said for me alone he d toil | G |
| To win an honest fame | H |
| But now no lass on southern soil | G |
| Is worthy of his name | H |
| - | |
| I think I see his lady bride | I |
| A fair and faultless face | J |
| And nothing in her heart beside | I |
| The empty pride of race | J |
| And she will grace his gilded home | K |
| The wife his gold shall buy | L |
| But will she ever dream of him | M |
| Or love as well as I | L |
Henry Lawson
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