The Patteran Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCDDBB EEBBBB| From over the leagues of ice and snow and the miles of scorching sand | A |
| From back of the days of long ago and the lonely sea and land | A |
| To the end of the world and our Gipsy race to the death of our dark eyed line | B |
| I have set the lines on my children s palms as my fathers did on mine | B |
| That the world shall know and my name shall glow in the light of the aftershine | B |
| I have set the lines on my children s palms as my fathers did on mine | B |
| I have given them health and strength pure blood clear skins for a glorious youth | C |
| I have set in their souls contempt for sham and a deathless regard for truth | C |
| I have bequeathed the spirit to fight I have given the will to rise | D |
| And the slumbering fires of Hate and Love in their dreaming dreaming eyes | D |
| That the world shall know and my name shall glow in the light of the aftershine | B |
| I have set the lines on my children s palms as my fathers did on mine | B |
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| I have given the love for their native land wherever that land may be | E |
| My children came from the East my friends and round by the Northern Sea | E |
| And a son of a son of mine enemy to the end of his treacherous line | B |
| Shall be stricken to earth if he dare but speak by a son of a son of mine | B |
| That the world shall know and my name shall glow in the light of the aftershine | B |
| I have set the lines on my children s palms as my fathers did on mine | B |
Henry Lawson
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