The Scamps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM NGNGOPOP KLKLQRQR| Of home name and wealth and ambition bereft | A |
| We are children of fortune and luck | B |
| They deny there s a shred of our characters left | A |
| But they cannot deny us the pluck | B |
| We are vagabond scamps we are kings over all | C |
| There is little on earth we desire | D |
| We are devils who stand with our backs to the wall | C |
| And who call on the cowards to fire | D |
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| There are some of us here who were noble and good | E |
| And who learnt in ingratitude s schools | F |
| They were born of the selfish and misunderstood | E |
| They were soft they were smoodgers or fools | F |
| With their hands in their pockets to help every friend | G |
| In a fix and they never asked how | H |
| Beware of them you who have money to lend | G |
| For it s little you d get from them now | H |
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| There are some of us here who were lovers of old | I |
| In the days that were nearer to God | J |
| The girl was more precious than honour or gold | I |
| And they worshipped the ground where she trod | J |
| But she trampled their hearts and they suffered and knew | K |
| How the soul of a woman to read | L |
| They will never again to a woman be true | K |
| Let the girls who may meet them take heed | M |
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| There are some of us here who were devils from birth | N |
| Who would steal the eye out of a friend | G |
| But we judge not or blame not the worst on the earth | N |
| For it comes to the same in the end | G |
| There are some of us here who were ruined by wrong | O |
| To whom justice and love came too late | P |
| And they threw them aside and go singing a song | O |
| And they know that their mistress is fate | P |
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| We were some of us failures at suicide too | K |
| We are most of us back from the dead | L |
| But we ve all found the courage to battle it through | K |
| Till the strength of our bodies is sped | L |
| With a flag that is dyed with our hearts blood unfurled | Q |
| We are marching and marching afar | R |
| We are comrades of all who are fighting the world | Q |
| For the world made us all what we are | R |
Henry Lawson
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