Wide Spaces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CDD EEE FFF GGG| When my last long beer has vanished and the truth is left unsaid | A |
| When each sordid care is banished from my chair and from my bed | A |
| And my common people sadly murmur 'Arry Lawson dead | A |
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| When the man I was denounces all the things that I was not | B |
| When the true souls stand like granite while the souls of liars not | B |
| When the quids I gave are counted and the trays I cadged forgot | B |
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| Shall my spirit see the country that it wrote for once again | C |
| Shall it see the old selections and the common street and lane | D |
| Shall it pass across the Black Soil and across the Red Soil Plain | D |
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| Shall it see the gaunt Bushwoman slave until she's fit to drop | E |
| For the distant trip to Sydney all depending on the crop | E |
| Or the twinkling legs of kiddies running to the lollie shop | E |
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| Shall my spirit see the failures battling west and fighting here | F |
| Shall it see the darkened shanty or the bar room dull and drear | F |
| Shall it whisper to the landlord to give Bummer Smith a beer | F |
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| Will they let me out of Heaven or Valhalla on my own | G |
| Or the Social Halls of Hades where I shall not be alone | G |
| Just to bring a breath of comfort to the hells that I have known | G |
Henry Lawson
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