Poet Henry Lawson

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Uncle Harry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNMNOKFK PLQLRKRK ESNSTKJK

Oh never let on to your own true loveA
That ever you drank a dropB
That ever you played in a two up schoolC
Or slept in a sly grog shopB
That ever a bad girl nursed you roundD
That ever you sank so lowE
But she pulled you through and it's only youF
And your old mate Harry knowE
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Billy the Link they called you thenG
And it makes me sad to thinkH
Of the strenuous days when it took three copsI
And a pimp to couple the LinkH
Mister Linkhurst they call you nowJ
And your kitchen garden growsK
And no one knows in your familyL
But your Uncle Harry knowsK
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Oh never let on to your fair young brideM
How a straight girl stabbed your heartN
With a devilish wire to the Western sideM
Where we were a world apartN
With pick and shovel you fought it outO
Where the red sirocco blowsK
And no one knew in the gang save youF
But your old mate Harry knowsK
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Oh never let on to your own good wifeP
For a tender heart has sheL
Of the girl that loved and the girl that liesQ
In the graveyard there by the seaL
'Twas not for his manners she loved the cadR
'Twas not for his verse or proseK
But the pity she felt for the country ladR
And your Uncle Harry knowsK
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The bad girl went where the bad girls goE
And I see her dark eyes yetS
The good girl left me her broken heartN
But I trow that their souls have metS
The cry of the heart we send not forthT
On every wind that blowsK
You are hiding a sorrow from someone nowJ
But your Uncle Harry knowsK

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