The Song Of The Waste-paper Basket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA DEDEAFAF GAGAHIHI AJAJKLKL| O BARD of fortune you deem me nought | A |
| But a mark for your careless scorn | B |
| For I am the echo less grave of thought | A |
| That is strangled before it s born | B |
| You think perchance that I am a doom | C |
| Which only a dunce should dread | A |
| Nor dream I ve been the dishonoured tomb | C |
| Of the noblest and brightest dead | A |
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| The brightest fancies that e er can fly | D |
| From the labouring minds of men | E |
| Are often written in lines awry | D |
| And marred by a blundering pen | E |
| And thus it comes that I gain a part | A |
| Of what to the world is loss | F |
| Of genius lost for the want of art | A |
| Of pearls that are set in dross | F |
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| And though I am of a lowly birth | G |
| My fame has been cheaply bought | A |
| A power am I for I rob the earth | G |
| Of the brightest gems of thought | A |
| The Press gains much of my lawful share | H |
| I am wronged without redress | I |
| But I have revenge for I think it fair | H |
| That I should plunder the Press | I |
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| You d pause in wonder to read behind | A |
| The lines of some songs I see | J |
| The soul of the singer I often find | A |
| In songs that are thrown to me | J |
| But the song of the singer I bury deep | K |
| With the scrawl of the dunce and clown | L |
| And both from the eyes of the world I keep | K |
| And the hopes of both I drown | L |
Henry Lawson
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