The Wander-light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DECE ACACFGFG HEIE JKLKHGLG LMCM LNONIPLP ICQC IRQRLSTS LCUC

And they heard the tent poles clatterA
And the fly in twain was tornB
'Tis the soiled rag of a tatterA
Of the tent where I was bornB
And what matters it I wonderA
Brick or stone or calicoC
Or a bush you were born underA
When it happened long agoC
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And my beds were camp beds and tramp beds and damp bedsD
And my beds were dry beds on drought stricken groundE
Hard beds and soft beds and wide beds and narrowC
For my beds were strange beds the wide world roundE
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And the old hag seemed to ponderA
'Twas my mother told me soC
And she said that I would wanderA
Where but few would think to goC
He will fly the haunts of tailorsF
He will cross the ocean wideG
For his fathers they were sailorsF
All on his good father's sideG
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Behind me before me Oh my roads are stormyH
The thunder of skies and the sea's sullen soundE
The coaster or liner the English or foreignI
The state room or steerage the wide world roundE
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And the old hag she seemed troubledJ
As she bent above the bedK
He will dream things and he'll see thingsL
To come true when he is deadK
He will see things all too plainlyH
And his fellows will derideG
For his mothers they were gipsiesL
All on his good mother's sideG
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And my dreams are strange dreams are day dreams are grey dreamsL
And my dreams are wild dreams and old dreams and newM
They haunt me and daunt me with fears of the morrowC
My brothers they doubt me but my dreams come trueM
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And so I was born of fathersL
From where ice bound harbours areN
Men whose strong limbs never restedO
And whose blue eyes saw afarN
Till for gold one left the oceanI
Seeking over plain and hillP
And so I was born of mothersL
Whose deep minds were never stillP
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I rest not 'tis best not the world is a wide oneI
And caged for an hour I pace to and froC
I see things and dree things and plan while I'm sleepingQ
I wander for ever and dream as I goC
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I have stood by Table MountainI
On the Lion at CapetownR
And I watched the sunset fadingQ
From the roads that I marked downR
And I looked out with my brothersL
From the heights behind BombayS
Gazing north and west and eastwardT
Over roads I'll tread some dayS
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For my ways are strange ways and new ways and old waysL
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and lowC
I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know notU
And restless and lost on a road that I knowC

Henry Lawson



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