He-s Gone To England For A Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED FAFAGHGH IJIJKLMLHE 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 |
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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 |
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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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