Poet Henry Lawson

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When Your Sins Come Home To Roost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGCC HHCC IICC

When you fear the barber s mirror when you go to get a cropA
Or in sorrow every morning comb your hair across the topA
When you titivate and do the little things you never usedB
It is close upon the season when your sins come home to roostC
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Many were the sins of others and you never were to blameD
Some were sins you shared in common you must suffer all the sameD
Some were sins of wasted hours with the wine cup or a mateE
But you cannot share the burden and they come in duplicateF
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Oh you ll find the fowls are heavy and their claws are sharp and deepG
They will bow your head in working they will jerk you from your sleepG
And so many hands are eager just to give your back a boostC
On the road to wreck and ruin when your sins come home to roostC
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But you don t let on they re roosting and you take some only wayH
And you never whine or guzzle and you neither curse nor prayH
You will never for an instant let your lower lip be loosedC
But you stand up like a soldier when your sins come home to roostC
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And you ll find them growing lighter till you find room for a fewI
Of the sins of other mortals who have weaker souls than youI
Then you ll smile and not too sadly at old sins reintroducedC
And you ll be a man in many when your sins come home to roostC

Henry Lawson



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