Written Out [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK AALL| Sing the song of the reckless who care not what they do | A |
| Sing the song of a sinner and the song of a writer too | A |
| Down in a pub in the alleys in a dark and dirty hole | B |
| With every soul a drunkard and the boss with never a soul | B |
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| Uncollared unkempt unshaven sat the writer whose fame was fair | C |
| And the girls of the streets were round him and the bullies and bludgers there | C |
| He was one of themselves and they told him the things that they had to tell | D |
| He was studying human nature with his brothers and sisters in hell | D |
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| He was neither poor nor lonely for a place in the world he d won | E |
| And up in the heights of the city he d a thousand friends or none | E |
| But he knew that his chums could wait awhile that he d reckon with foes at last | F |
| For he lived far into a future that he knew because of the past | F |
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| They remembered the man he had been they remembered the songs he wrote | G |
| And some of them came to pity and some of them came to gloat | G |
| Some of them shouted exulting some whispered with bated breath | H |
| That down in a den in the alleys he was drinking himself to death | H |
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| Thus said the voice of the hypocrites and the true hearts sighed with pain | I |
| Oh he never will write as he used to write He never will write again | J |
| A poet had written his epitaph in numbers of sad regret | K |
| And the passing notice was pigeon holed and the last review was set | K |
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| But the strength was in him to rise again to a greater height he knew | A |
| For the sake of the friends who were true to him and the work that he had to do | A |
| He was sounding the depths that he had to know he was gathering truths for his craft | L |
| And he heard the chatter of little men and he turned to his beer and laughed | L |
Henry Lawson
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