The Drunkard's Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF GHIHJKDK LMNMAOPO QBQBRBRB PSTSUVBV| A public parlour in the slums | A |
| The haunt of vice and villainy | B |
| Where things are said unfit to hear | C |
| And things are done unfit to see | D |
| Mid ribald jest and reckless song | E |
| That mock at all that s pure and right | F |
| The drunkard drinks the whole day long | E |
| And raves through half the dreadful night | F |
| - | |
| And in the morning now he sits | G |
| With staring eyes and trembling limb | H |
| The harbour in the sunlight laughs | I |
| But morning is as night to him | H |
| And staring blankly at the wall | J |
| He sees the tragedy complete | K |
| He sees the man he used to be | D |
| Go striding proudly up the street | K |
| - | |
| He turns the corner with a swing | L |
| And at the vine framed cottage gate | M |
| The father sees with laughing eyes | N |
| His little son and daughter wait | M |
| They race to meet him as he comes | A |
| And Oh this memory is worst | O |
| Her dimpled arms go round his neck | P |
| She pants I dot my daddy first | O |
| - | |
| He sees his bright eyed little wife | Q |
| He sees the cottage neat and clean | B |
| He sees the wrecking of his life | Q |
| And all the things that might have been | B |
| And sunk in hopeless black despair | R |
| That drink no more has power to drown | B |
| Upon the beer stained table there | R |
| The drunkard s ruined head goes down | B |
| - | |
| But even I a fearful wreck | P |
| Have drifted long before the storm | S |
| I know when all seems lost on earth | T |
| How hard it can be to reform | S |
| I too have sinned and we have both | U |
| Drunk to the dregs the bitter cup | V |
| Give me your hand Oh brother mine | B |
| And even I might help you up | V |
Henry Lawson
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