I-m An Older Man Than You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DEBB EEEE FFEE GGEE| WHEN you ve managed with the tailor for a rig out of a sort | A |
| And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short | A |
| Do not fret and swear and worry make the tailor see you through | B |
| I have been through many new suits I m an older man than you | B |
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| When your girl is interfering with your appetite and work | C |
| With your sleep and time and reason till the jealous demons lurk | C |
| When your girl is playing with you leave her for a week or two | B |
| If in vain then quit for ever I m an older man than you | B |
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| When your wife deceives or leaves you for a blackguard brute and sot | D |
| And when not a soul believes you when you say that you were not | E |
| Do not rave or brood and weaken and the years will prove you true | B |
| Let your own self be the beacon I m an older man than you | B |
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| Do not take a silly mistress in your vanity accursed | E |
| And a second wife or husband but reminds you of the first | E |
| Banish mutual friends and pity kill or cure relations too | E |
| Shun false reconciliation I m an older man than you | E |
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| Be the cause however worthy and your case however strong | F |
| Be your wrong however cruel drink will put you in the wrong | F |
| Drink will neutralize and murder all the good that time can do | E |
| Though our birthdays come together I m an older man than you | E |
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| But for ever and for ever over seas and through the lands | G |
| Go the hand laid on the shoulder and the silent grip of hands | G |
| With a world of human feeling men who know and men who knew | E |
| Clear your soul of pessimism I m an older man than you | E |
Henry Lawson
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