The Soul Of A Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKALAL AMANEOEO| I HAVE written long years I have written | A |
| For the sake of my people and right | B |
| I was true when the iron had bitten | A |
| Deep into my soul in the night | B |
| And I wrote not for praise nor for money | C |
| I craved but the soul and the pen | D |
| And I felt not the sting in the honey | C |
| Of praising the kindness of men | D |
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| You read and you saw without seeing | E |
| My work seemed a trifle apart | F |
| While the truth of things thrilled through my being | E |
| And the wrong of things murdered my heart | F |
| Cast out and despised and neglected | G |
| And weak and in fear and in debt | H |
| My songs mutilated rejected | I |
| Shall ring through the Commonwealth yet | H |
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| And you too the pure and the guileless | J |
| In the peace of your comfort and pride | K |
| You have mocked at my bodily vileness | J |
| You have tempted and cast me aside | K |
| But wronged and cast out drink sodden | A |
| But shunned and insane and unclean | L |
| I have dared where few others have trodden | A |
| I have seen what few others have seen | L |
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| I have seen your souls bare for a season | A |
| I have heard as a deaf man can hear | M |
| I have seen you deprived of your reason | A |
| And stricken with deadliest fear | N |
| And when beautiful night hid the shocking | E |
| Black shame of the day that was past | O |
| I felt the great universe rocking | E |
| With the truth that was coming at last | O |
Henry Lawson
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