The Pavement Stones (a Song Of The Unemployed) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHGIJKJ LLMLNOPO QBRBSBTB BUVUWBEB| When first I came to town resolved | A |
| To fight my way alone | B |
| No prouder foot than mine e'er trod | C |
| Upon the pavement stone | B |
| But I am one in thousands | D |
| And why should I repine | B |
| The pavement stones have broken springs | E |
| In stronger feet than mine | B |
| - | |
| I brought to aid me all the hope | F |
| And energy of youth | G |
| And in my heart I felt the strength | H |
| Of plain bucolic truth | G |
| The independence nourished | I |
| Amid the hills and trees | J |
| But ah the city hath a cure | K |
| For qualities like these | J |
| - | |
| I wonder oft how e'er I made | L |
| The efforts that I made | L |
| For after three long weary years | M |
| I taught myself a trade | L |
| And two more years and I was free | N |
| With strength and hope elate | O |
| For he that hath a trade they say | P |
| Hath also an estate | O |
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| I tramped the streets and looked for work | Q |
| And begged for work in vain | B |
| Until I recked not though I ne'er | R |
| Might touch my tools again | B |
| I tramped the streets despairing | S |
| My cheeks grew white and thin | B |
| I felt the pavement wearing through | T |
| The leather sock and skin | B |
| - | |
| The bitter war goes on between | B |
| The idlers and the drones | U |
| Until the hearts of men grow cold | V |
| And hard as pavement stones | U |
| But I am one amid the crowd | W |
| Then why should I repine | B |
| The pavement stones have broken springs | E |
| In stronger feet than mine | B |
Henry Lawson
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