The Rovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEAGHGIJDJ IKIKLMNM HOPOIQRQ STUTVWVX UYZYNNDN DDPDDA2YA2 DDDDDB2HB2 UC2DC2PD2ID2 PE2DE2DXPX NF2G2F2DUDU IDHDUUH2U

Some born of homely parentsA
For ages settled downB
The steady generationsC
Of village farm and townB
And some of dusky fathersD
Who wandered since the floodE
The fairest skin or darkestF
Might hold the roving bloodE
Some born of brutish peasantsA
And some of dainty peersG
In poverty or plentyH
They pass their early yearsG
But born in pride of purpleI
Or straw and squalid sinJ
In all the far world cornersD
The wanderers are kinJ
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A rover or a rebelI
Conceived and born to roamK
As babies they will toddleI
With faces turned from homeK
They ve fought beyond the vanguardL
Wherever storm has ragedM
And home is but a prisonN
They pace like lions cagedM
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They smile and are not happyH
They sing and are not gayO
They weary yet they wanderP
They love and cannot stayO
They marry and are singleI
Who watch the roving starQ
For by the family firesideR
Oh lonely men they areQ
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They die of peace and quietS
The deadly ease of lifeT
They die of home and comfortU
They live in storm and strifeT
No poverty can tie themV
Nor wealth nor place restrainW
Girl wife or child might draw themV
But they ll be gone againX
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Across the glowing desertU
Through naked trees and snowY
Across the rolling prairiesZ
The skies have seen them goY
They fought to where the oceanN
Receives the setting sunN
But where shall fight the roversD
When all the lands are wonN
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They thirst on Greenland snowfieldsD
On Never Never sandsD
Where man is not to conquerP
They conquer barren landsD
They feel that most are cowardsD
That all depends on nerveA2
They lead who cannot followY
They rule who cannot serveA2
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Across the plains and rangesD
Away across the seasD
On blue and green horizonsD
They camp by twos and threesD
They hold on stormy bordersD
Of states that trouble earthB2
The honour of the countryH
That only gave them birthB2
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Unlisted uncommissionedU
Untaught of any schoolC2
In far away world cornersD
Unconquered tribes they ruleC2
The lone hand and revolverP
Sad eyes that never quailD2
The lone hand and the rifleI
That win where armies failD2
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They slumber sound where murderP
And treachery are bareE2
The pluck of self relianceD
The pluck of past despairE2
Thin brown men in pyjamasD
The thin brown wiry menX
The helmet and revolverP
That lie beside the penX
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Through drought and desolationN
They won the way Out BackF2
The commonplace and selfishG2
Have followed on their trackF2
They conquer lands for othersD
For others find the goldU
But where shall go the roversD
When all the lands are oldU
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A rover and a rebelI
And so the worlds commenceD
Their hearts shall beat as wildlyH
Ten generations henceD
And when the world is crowdedU
Tis signed and sealed by FateU
The roving blood will rise to makeH2
The countries desolateU

Henry Lawson



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