The Battling Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCC BBDD BBEE BBFF BBBB| So sit you down in a straight backed chair with your pipe and your wife content | A |
| And cross your knees with your wisest air and preach of the days mis spent | A |
| Grown fat and moral apace old man you prate of the change since then | B |
| In spite of all I d as lief be back in those hard old days again | B |
| They were hard old days they were battling days they were cruel at times but then | B |
| In spite of all I would rather be back in those hard old days again | B |
| The land was barren to sow wild oats in the days when we sowed our own | C |
| Twas little we thought or our friends believed that ours would ever be sown | C |
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| But the wild oats wave on their stormy path and they speak of the hearts of men | B |
| I would sow a crop if I had my time in those hard old days again | B |
| We travel first or we go saloon on the planned out trips we go | D |
| With those who are neither rich nor poor and we find that the life is slow | D |
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| It s a pleasant trip where they cried Good luck There was fun in the steerage then | B |
| In spite of all I would fain be back in those vagabond days again | B |
| On Saturday night we ve a pound to spare a pound for a trip down town | E |
| We took more joy in those hard old days for a hardly spared half crown | E |
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| We took more pride in the pants we patched than the suits we have had since then | B |
| In spite of all I would rather be back in those comical days again | B |
| Twas We and the World and the rest go hang as the Outside tracks we trod | F |
| Each thought of himself as a man and mate and not as a martyred god | F |
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| The world goes wrong when your heart is strong and this is the way with men | B |
| The world goes right when your liver is white and you preach of the change since then | B |
| They were hard old days they were battling days they were cruel times but then | B |
| In spite of all we shall live to night in those hard old days again | B |
Henry Lawson
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