The Memories They Bring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDEFGFHIHI JKJKCJCJ LMLNCFCF| I would never waste the hours | A |
| Of the time that is mine own | B |
| Writing verses about flowers | A |
| For their own sweet sakes alone | B |
| Gushing as a schoolgirl gushes | C |
| Over babies at their best | D |
| Or as poets trill of thrushes | E |
| Larks and starlings and the rest | D |
| I am not a man who praises | E |
| Beauty that he cannot see | F |
| But the buttercups and daisies | G |
| Bring my childhood back to me | F |
| And before life s bitter battle | H |
| That breaks lion hearts and kills | I |
| Oh the waratah and wattle | H |
| Saw my boyhood on the hills | I |
| - | |
| It was Cissy or Cecilia | J |
| And I loved her very much | K |
| When I wore the white camelia | J |
| That will wither at a touch | K |
| Ah the fairest chapter closes | C |
| With lilies white and blue | J |
| When the wild days with the roses | C |
| Cast their glamour over you | J |
| - | |
| Vine leaves fall and laurels wither | L |
| Madd ning drink and pride insane | M |
| And the fate that sends us hither | L |
| Ever takes us back again | N |
| Fading flowers slow pulsations | C |
| Flowers pressed for memory | F |
| But the red and pink carnations | C |
| Speak most bitter things to me | F |
Henry Lawson
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