The Voice From Over Yonder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDC EFFDCGGGC HHICBBBC| Did she care as much as I did | A |
| When our paths of Fate divided | B |
| Was the love then all onesided | B |
| Did she understand or care | C |
| Slowly fall the moments leaden | D |
| And the silence seems to deaden | D |
| And a voice from over yonder answers sadly I ve been there | C |
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| Have you tramped the streets of cities | E |
| Poor And do you know what it is | F |
| While no mortal cares or pities | F |
| To have drifted past ambition | D |
| To have sunk below despair | C |
| Doomed to slave and stint and borrow | G |
| Ever haunted in your sorrow | G |
| By the spectre of To morrow | G |
| And the voice from over yonder answers sadly I ve been there | C |
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| Surely in the wide Hereafter | H |
| There s a land of love and laughter | H |
| Say Is this life all we live for | I |
| Say it think it if you dare | C |
| Have you ever thought or wondered | B |
| Why the Man and God were sundered | B |
| Do you think the Maker blundered | B |
| And the voice in mocking accents answered only I ve been there | C |
Henry Lawson
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