The Pavement Stones :a Song Of The Unemployed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHGIJKJ LLMLNOPO QBRBSBTB BUVUWBEBWHEN 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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