The Tracks That Lie By India Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHIGG JJKKLL MMNNOG| Now this is not a dismal song like some I ve sung of late | A |
| When I ve been brooding all day long about my muddled fate | A |
| For though I ve had a rocky time I ll never quite forget | B |
| And though I never was so deep in trouble and in debt | B |
| And though I never was so poor nor in a fix so tight | C |
| The tracks that run by India are shining in my sight | C |
| The roads that run by India and all the ports of call | D |
| I m going back to London first to raise the wherewithal | D |
| I ll call at Suez and Port Said as I am going past | E |
| I was too worried to take notes when I was that way last | E |
| At Naples and at Genoa and if I get the chance | F |
| Who knows but I might run across the pleasant land of France | F |
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| The track that runs by India goes up the hot Red Sea | G |
| The other side of Africa is far too dull for me | G |
| I fear that I have missed a chance I ll never get again | H |
| To see the land of chivalry and bide awhile in Spain | I |
| I ll graft a year in London and if fortune smiles on me | G |
| I ll take the track to India by France and Italy | G |
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| Tis sweet to court some foreign girl with eyes of lustrous glow | J |
| Who does not know my language and whose language I don t know | J |
| To loll on gently rolling decks beneath the softening skies | K |
| While she sits knitting opposite and make love with our eyes | K |
| The glance that says far more than words the old half mystic smile | L |
| The track that runs by India will wait for me awhile | L |
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| The tracks that run by India to China and Japan | M |
| The tracks where all the rovers go the tracks that call a Man | M |
| I m wearied of the formal lands of parson and of priest | N |
| Of dollars and of fashions and I m drifting towards the East | N |
| I m tired of cant and cackle and of sordid jobbery | O |
| The mystery of the East hath cast its glamour over me | G |
Henry Lawson
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