To An Old Mate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD AEAEAE FGFGFG HIHIJI KLKLKL| Old Mate In the gusty old weather | A |
| When our hopes and our troubles were new | B |
| In the years spent in wearing out leather | A |
| I found you unselfish and true | B |
| I have gathered these verses together | A |
| For the sake of our friendship and you | B |
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| You may think for awhile and with reason | C |
| Though still with a kindly regret | D |
| That I've left it full late in the season | C |
| To prove I remember you yet | D |
| But you'll never judge me by their treason | C |
| Who profit by friends and forget | D |
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| I remember Old Man I remember | A |
| The tracks that we followed are clear | E |
| The jovial last nights of December | A |
| The solemn first days of the year | E |
| Long tramps through the clearings and timber | A |
| Short partings on platform and pier | E |
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| I can still feel the spirit that bore us | F |
| And often the old stars will shine | G |
| I remember the last spree in chorus | F |
| For the sake of that other Lang Syne | G |
| When the tracks lay divided before us | F |
| Your path through the future and mine | G |
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| Through the frost wind that cut like whip lashes | H |
| Through the ever blind haze of the drought | I |
| And in fancy at times by the flashes | H |
| Of light in the darkness of doubt | I |
| I have followed the tent poles and ashes | J |
| Of camps that we moved further out | I |
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| You will find in these pages a trace of | K |
| That side of our past which was bright | L |
| And recognise sometimes the face of | K |
| A friend who has dropped out of sight | L |
| I send them along in the place of | K |
| The letters I promised to write | L |
Henry Lawson
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