The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGEHEH IJIJKLKL MNMOPOPO QLQLRJRJ| Fight through ignorance want and care | A |
| Through the griefs that crush the spirit | B |
| Push your way to a fortune fair | A |
| And the smiles of the world you ll merit | B |
| Long as a boy for the chance to learn | C |
| For the chance that Fate denies you | D |
| Win degrees where the Life lights burn | C |
| And scores will teach and advise you | D |
| My cultured friends you have come too late | E |
| With your bypath nicely graded | F |
| I ve fought thus far on my track of Fate | E |
| And I ll follow the rest unaided | G |
| Must I be stopped by a college gate | E |
| On the track of Life encroaching | H |
| Be dumb to Love and be dumb to Hate | E |
| For the lack of a college coaching | H |
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| You grope for Truth in a language dead | I |
| In the dust neath tower and steeple | J |
| What know you of the tracks we tread | I |
| And what know you of our people | J |
| I must read this and that and the rest | K |
| And write as the cult expects me | L |
| I ll read the book that may please me best | K |
| And write as my heart directs me | L |
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| You were quick to pick on a faulty line | M |
| That I strove to put my soul in | N |
| Your eyes were keen for a dash of mine | M |
| In the place of a semi colon | O |
| And blind to the rest And is it for such | P |
| As you I must brook restriction | O |
| I was taught too little I learnt too much | P |
| To care for a pedant s diction | O |
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| Must I turn aside from my destined way | Q |
| For a task your Joss would find me | L |
| I come with strength of the living day | Q |
| And with half the world behind me | L |
| I leave you alone in your cultured halls | R |
| To drivel and croak and cavil | J |
| Till your voice goes further than college walls | R |
| Keep out of the tracks we travel | J |
Henry Lawson
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