The Three Partners Or, Let's Be Fools To-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE BFBF AGCGHIHI HFHF HGHGJKJK HFHF LHLHMHMH HFHF| We three men of commerce | A |
| Striving wealth to raise | B |
| See but little promise | C |
| In the coming days | B |
| Though our hearts are brittle | D |
| Hardened near to stone | E |
| We can think a little | D |
| Of the seasons flown | E |
| - | |
| Lily days and rose days | B |
| Youthful days so bright | F |
| We were fools in those days | B |
| Let's be fools to night | F |
| - | |
| We three men of commerce | A |
| Men of business we | G |
| Gave but little promise | C |
| Of what we would be | G |
| When we wandered urchins | H |
| Foes of law and rule | I |
| Fearing only birchings | H |
| And the village school | I |
| - | |
| Lily days and rose days | H |
| Boyhood's days so bright | F |
| We were fools in those days | H |
| Let's be fools to night | F |
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| We three men of commerce | H |
| Men of business we | G |
| Gave but little promise | H |
| Of ability | G |
| When we lived in riot | J |
| Never drew the line | K |
| Hating peace and quiet | J |
| Loving maids and wine | K |
| - | |
| Days when money goes days | H |
| When men's hearts are right | F |
| We were fools in those days | H |
| Let's be fools to night | F |
| - | |
| We must wear to morrow | L |
| All our worldly marks | H |
| Calm looks for our sorrow | L |
| Stern looks for our clerks | H |
| Who from trouble shrinking | M |
| Tasting earthly joys | H |
| Hate us little thinking | M |
| Ever we were boys | H |
| - | |
| Days when kindness flows days | H |
| When men's hearts are white | F |
| We've been wise since those days | H |
| Let's be fools to night | F |
Henry Lawson
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