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 resolvedA
To fight my way aloneB
No prouder foot than mine e'er trodC
Upon the pavement stoneB
But I am one in thousandsD
And why should I repineB
The pavement stones have broken springsE
In stronger feet than mineB
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I brought to aid me all the hopeF
And energy of youthG
And in my heart I felt the strengthH
Of plain bucolic truthG
The independence nourishedI
Amid the hills and treesJ
But ah the city hath a cureK
For qualities like theseJ
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I wonder oft how e'er I madeL
The efforts that I madeL
For after three long weary yearsM
I taught myself a tradeL
And two more years and I was freeN
With strength and hope elateO
For he that hath a trade they sayP
Hath also an estateO
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I tramped the streets and looked for workQ
And begged for work in vainB
Until I recked not though I ne'erR
Might touch my tools againB
I tramped the streets despairingS
My cheeks grew white and thinB
I felt the pavement wearing throughT
The leather sock and skinB
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The bitter war goes on betweenB
The idlers and the dronesU
Until the hearts of men grow coldV
And hard as pavement stonesU
But I am one amid the crowdW
Then why should I repineB
The pavement stones have broken springsE
In stronger feet than mineB

Henry Lawson



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