The Watch On The Kerb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDDCD ECECCCCC FCGCHIHI| Night Lights are falling | A |
| Girl of the street | B |
| Go to your calling | A |
| If you would eat | B |
| Lamplight and starlight | C |
| And moonlight superb | D |
| Bright hope is a farlight | C |
| So watch on the kerb | D |
| Watch on the kerb | D |
| Watch on the kerb | D |
| Hope is a farlight | C |
| Then watch on the kerb | D |
| - | |
| Comes a man call him | E |
| Gone he is vext | C |
| Curses befall him | E |
| Wait for the next | C |
| Fair world and bright world | C |
| Life still is sweet | C |
| Girl of the night world | C |
| Watch on the street | C |
| - | |
| Dreary the watch is | F |
| Moon sinks from sight | C |
| Gas only blotches | G |
| Darkness with light | C |
| Never Oh never | H |
| Let courage go down | I |
| Keep from the river | H |
| Oh Girl of the Town | I |
Henry Lawson
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