The Wander-light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DECE ACACFGFG HEIE JKLKHGLG LMCM LNONIPLP ICQC IRQRLSTS LCUCAnd they heard the tent poles clatter | A |
And the fly in twain was torn | B |
'Tis the soiled rag of a tatter | A |
Of the tent where I was born | B |
And what matters it I wonder | A |
Brick or stone or calico | C |
Or a bush you were born under | A |
When it happened long ago | C |
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And my beds were camp beds and tramp beds and damp beds | D |
And my beds were dry beds on drought stricken ground | E |
Hard beds and soft beds and wide beds and narrow | C |
For my beds were strange beds the wide world round | E |
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And the old hag seemed to ponder | A |
'Twas my mother told me so | C |
And she said that I would wander | A |
Where but few would think to go | C |
He will fly the haunts of tailors | F |
He will cross the ocean wide | G |
For his fathers they were sailors | F |
All on his good father's side | G |
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Behind me before me Oh my roads are stormy | H |
The thunder of skies and the sea's sullen sound | E |
The coaster or liner the English or foreign | I |
The state room or steerage the wide world round | E |
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And the old hag she seemed troubled | J |
As she bent above the bed | K |
He will dream things and he'll see things | L |
To come true when he is dead | K |
He will see things all too plainly | H |
And his fellows will deride | G |
For his mothers they were gipsies | L |
All on his good mother's side | G |
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And my dreams are strange dreams are day dreams are grey dreams | L |
And my dreams are wild dreams and old dreams and new | M |
They haunt me and daunt me with fears of the morrow | C |
My brothers they doubt me but my dreams come true | M |
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And so I was born of fathers | L |
From where ice bound harbours are | N |
Men whose strong limbs never rested | O |
And whose blue eyes saw afar | N |
Till for gold one left the ocean | I |
Seeking over plain and hill | P |
And so I was born of mothers | L |
Whose deep minds were never still | P |
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I rest not 'tis best not the world is a wide one | I |
And caged for an hour I pace to and fro | C |
I see things and dree things and plan while I'm sleeping | Q |
I wander for ever and dream as I go | C |
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I have stood by Table Mountain | I |
On the Lion at Capetown | R |
And I watched the sunset fading | Q |
From the roads that I marked down | R |
And I looked out with my brothers | L |
From the heights behind Bombay | S |
Gazing north and west and eastward | T |
Over roads I'll tread some day | S |
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For my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways | L |
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low | C |
I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not | U |
And restless and lost on a road that I know | C |
Henry Lawson
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