Written Afterwards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACBDBDECEC AAAAFCFC AGAGACAC FHFIECEC JKJKHCBC LMLMNCNC| So the days of my tramping are over | A |
| And the days of my riding are done | B |
| I m about as content as a rover | A |
| Will ever be under the sun | B |
| I write after reading your letter | A |
| My pipe with old memories rife | C |
| And I feel in a mood that had better | A |
| Not meet the true eyes of the wife | C |
| You must never admit a suggestion | B |
| That old things are good to recall | D |
| You must never consider the question | B |
| Was I happier then after all | D |
| You must banish the old hope and sorrow | E |
| That make the sad pleasures of life | C |
| You must live for To day and To morrow | E |
| If you want to be just to the wife | C |
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| I have changed since the first day I kissed her | A |
| Which is due Heaven bless her to her | A |
| I m respected and trusted I m Mister | A |
| Addressed by the children as Sir | A |
| And I feel the respect without feigning | F |
| But you d laugh the great laugh of your life | C |
| If you only saw me entertaining | F |
| An old lady friend of the wife | C |
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| By the way when you re writing remember | A |
| That you never went drinking with me | G |
| And forget our last night of December | A |
| Lest our sev ral accounts disagree | G |
| And for my sake old man you had better | A |
| Avoid the old language of strife | C |
| For the technical terms of your letter | A |
| May be misunderstood by the wife | C |
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| Never hint of the girls appertaining | F |
| To the past when you re writing again | H |
| For they take such a lot of explaining | F |
| And you know how I hate to explain | I |
| There are some things we know to our sorrow | E |
| That cut to the heart like a knife | C |
| And your past is To day and To morrow | E |
| If you want to be true to the wife | C |
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| I believe that the creed we were chums in | J |
| Was grand but too abstract and bold | K |
| And the knowledge of life only comes in | J |
| When you re married and fathered and old | K |
| And it s well You may travel as few men | H |
| You may stick to a mistress for life | C |
| But the world as it is born of woman | B |
| Must be seen through the eyes of the wife | C |
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| No doubt you are dreaming as I did | L |
| And going the careless old pace | M |
| While my future grows dull and decided | L |
| And the world narrows down to the Place | M |
| Let it be If my treason s resented | N |
| You may do worse old man in your life | C |
| Let me dream too that I am contented | N |
| For the sake of a true little wife | C |
Henry Lawson
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