The Men Who Stuck To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FBGB EBHB HBIB| They were men of many nations they were men of many stations | A |
| They were men in many places and of high and low degree | B |
| Men of many types and faces but alike in all the races | C |
| They were men I met in trouble and the men who stuck to me | B |
| Some were friends but most were strangers some were weary world wide rangers | D |
| Some in freedom were in prison and in prison some were free | B |
| Oh I have a vivid vision of the men I met in prison | E |
| In the craving for tobacco they were men who stuck to me | B |
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| Some I never met and never knew their great but vain endeavour | F |
| For my sake And some were old mates whom I never more may see | B |
| Never heard me some I talked with never saw me some I walked with | G |
| Blind and deaf and dumb and foreign were the men who stuck to me | B |
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| Yes I ll stick the words most human be the trouble man or woman | E |
| Stick with money or without it and whoever you may be | B |
| Right or wrong in drink or sadness stick in sanity or madness | H |
| Such as these the men I stuck to and the men who stuck to me | B |
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| Ah we see not in our blindness that the world is full of kindness | H |
| Kindness to make full atonement for all evil that there be | B |
| Oh my life was deadly fateful but my heart was always grateful | I |
| And I send this song at Christmas to the men who stuck to me | B |
Henry Lawson
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