The Rovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEAGHGIJDJ IKIKLMNM HOPOIQRQ STUTVWVX UYZYNNDN DDPDDA2YA2 DDDDDB2HB2 UC2DC2PD2ID2 PE2DE2DXPX NF2G2F2DUDU IDHDUUH2USome born of homely parents | A |
For ages settled down | B |
The steady generations | C |
Of village farm and town | B |
And some of dusky fathers | D |
Who wandered since the flood | E |
The fairest skin or darkest | F |
Might hold the roving blood | E |
Some born of brutish peasants | A |
And some of dainty peers | G |
In poverty or plenty | H |
They pass their early years | G |
But born in pride of purple | I |
Or straw and squalid sin | J |
In all the far world corners | D |
The wanderers are kin | J |
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A rover or a rebel | I |
Conceived and born to roam | K |
As babies they will toddle | I |
With faces turned from home | K |
They ve fought beyond the vanguard | L |
Wherever storm has raged | M |
And home is but a prison | N |
They pace like lions caged | M |
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They smile and are not happy | H |
They sing and are not gay | O |
They weary yet they wander | P |
They love and cannot stay | O |
They marry and are single | I |
Who watch the roving star | Q |
For by the family fireside | R |
Oh lonely men they are | Q |
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They die of peace and quiet | S |
The deadly ease of life | T |
They die of home and comfort | U |
They live in storm and strife | T |
No poverty can tie them | V |
Nor wealth nor place restrain | W |
Girl wife or child might draw them | V |
But they ll be gone again | X |
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Across the glowing desert | U |
Through naked trees and snow | Y |
Across the rolling prairies | Z |
The skies have seen them go | Y |
They fought to where the ocean | N |
Receives the setting sun | N |
But where shall fight the rovers | D |
When all the lands are won | N |
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They thirst on Greenland snowfields | D |
On Never Never sands | D |
Where man is not to conquer | P |
They conquer barren lands | D |
They feel that most are cowards | D |
That all depends on nerve | A2 |
They lead who cannot follow | Y |
They rule who cannot serve | A2 |
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Across the plains and ranges | D |
Away across the seas | D |
On blue and green horizons | D |
They camp by twos and threes | D |
They hold on stormy borders | D |
Of states that trouble earth | B2 |
The honour of the country | H |
That only gave them birth | B2 |
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Unlisted uncommissioned | U |
Untaught of any school | C2 |
In far away world corners | D |
Unconquered tribes they rule | C2 |
The lone hand and revolver | P |
Sad eyes that never quail | D2 |
The lone hand and the rifle | I |
That win where armies fail | D2 |
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They slumber sound where murder | P |
And treachery are bare | E2 |
The pluck of self reliance | D |
The pluck of past despair | E2 |
Thin brown men in pyjamas | D |
The thin brown wiry men | X |
The helmet and revolver | P |
That lie beside the pen | X |
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Through drought and desolation | N |
They won the way Out Back | F2 |
The commonplace and selfish | G2 |
Have followed on their track | F2 |
They conquer lands for others | D |
For others find the gold | U |
But where shall go the rovers | D |
When all the lands are old | U |
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A rover and a rebel | I |
And so the worlds commence | D |
Their hearts shall beat as wildly | H |
Ten generations hence | D |
And when the world is crowded | U |
Tis signed and sealed by Fate | U |
The roving blood will rise to make | H2 |
The countries desolate | U |
Henry Lawson
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