In The Day's When We Are Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDBDBAB ECEC FGFG FCFC AHAH ACACAC| Listen The end draws nearer | A |
| Nearer the morning or night | B |
| And I see with a vision clearer | A |
| That the beginning was right | B |
| These shall be words to remember | A |
| When all has been done and said | C |
| And my fame is a dying ember | A |
| In the days when I am dead | C |
| Listen We wrote in sorrow | D |
| And we wrote by candle light | B |
| We took no heed of the morrow | D |
| And I think that we were right | B |
| To morrow but not the day after | A |
| And I think that we were right | B |
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| We wrote of a world that was human | E |
| And we wrote of blood that was red | C |
| For a child or a man or a woman | E |
| Remember when we are dead | C |
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| Listen We wrote not for money | F |
| And listen We wrote not for fame | G |
| We wrote for the milk and the honey | F |
| Of Kindness and not for a name | G |
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| We paused not nor faltered for any | F |
| Though many fell back where we led | C |
| We wrote of the few for the many | F |
| Remember when we are dead | C |
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| We suffered as few men suffer | A |
| Yet laughed as few men laugh | H |
| We grin as the road grows rougher | A |
| And a bitterer cup we quaff | H |
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| We lived for Right and for Laughter | A |
| And we fought for a Nation ahead | C |
| Remember it friends hereafter | A |
| In the years when I am dead | C |
| For to morrow and not the day after | A |
| For ourselves and a Nation ahead | C |
Henry Lawson
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