Sez You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEECCC FFGGCCC HHIJ CCC KKDDLLCC| When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet | A |
| And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing heat | A |
| When your head is hot and aching and the shadeless plain is wide | B |
| And it's fifteen miles to water in the scrub the other side | B |
| Don't give up don't be down hearted to a man's strong heart be true | C |
| Take the air in through your nostrils set your lips and see it through | C |
| For it can't go on for ever and I'll have my day ' says you | C |
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| When you're camping in the mulga and the rain is falling slow | D |
| While you nurse your rheumatism 'neath a patch of calico | D |
| Short of tucker or tobacco short of sugar or of tea | E |
| And the scrubs are dark and dismal and the plains are like a sea | E |
| Don't give up and be down hearted to the soul of man be true | C |
| Grin if you've a mate to grin for grin and jest and don't look blue | C |
| For it can't go on for ever and I'll rise some day ' says you | C |
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| When you've tramped the Sydney pavements till you've counted all the flags | F |
| And your flapping boot soles trip you and your clothes are mostly rags | F |
| When you're called a city loafer shunned abused moved on despised | G |
| Fifty hungry beggars after every job that's advertised | G |
| Don't be beaten Hold your head up To your wretched self be true | C |
| Set your pride to fight your hunger Be a MAN in all you do | C |
| For it cannot last for ever I will rise again ' says you | C |
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| When you're dossing out in winter in the darkness and the rain | H |
| Crouching cramped and cold and hungry 'neath a seat in The Domain | H |
| And a cloaked policeman stirs you with that mighty foot of his | I |
| Phwat d'ye mane Phwat's this | J |
| Who are ye Come move on git out av this ' | - |
| Don't get mad 'twere only foolish there is nought that you can do | C |
| Save to mark his beat and time him find another hole or two | C |
| But it can't go on for ever I'll have money yet ' says you | C |
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| Bother not about the morrow for sufficient to the day | K |
| Is the evil rather more so Put your trust in God and pray | K |
| Study well the ant thou sluggard Blessed are the meek and low | D |
| Ponder calmly on the lilies how they idle how they grow | D |
| A man's a man Obey your masters Do not blame the proud and fat | L |
| For the poor are always with them and they cannot alter that | L |
| Lay your treasures up in Heaven cling to life and see it through | C |
| For it cannot last for ever I shall die some day ' says you | C |
Henry Lawson
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