A Reflection On Lawson's Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BB CCC DDD EE FFF GGG| Seasons bloom and seasons wither dark or bright they cannot last | A |
| Must we try with floods of bitter teas to vivify the past | A |
| Vainly chase the brown and broken blossoms blown along the blast | A |
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| Shall we scorn the flowers around us red or blue or white as snow | B |
| Flowers giving loads of fragrance unto all the winds that blow | B |
| Must we hide our eyes and falter 'O the days of long ago ' | - |
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| Never stop to look behind you if the blaze of glory there | C |
| Blinds you to the splendour stretching round about and everywhere | C |
| True the past was pleasant Lawson but the present is as fair | C |
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| I too love the days when heroes seeking treasure seaward sped | D |
| Days of Drake when English sailors followed where their leaders led | D |
| Days when Marlowe trod the glowing clouds that thundered to his tread | D |
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| Even then though there were cowards traitors swindler 'business men ' | - |
| Plot and murder slave and master secret sneer and wounding pen | E |
| And the poets thought the present vile and barren even then | E |
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| And their comrades were no better than some modern mates we meet | F |
| Even though they don't go wearing tights and feathers in the street | F |
| And the girls are dear as ever and their kisses just as sweet | F |
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| Sing the present dropp the drivel of the 'days evanished ' please | G |
| Though you pray until your pants are burst or baggy at the knees | G |
| You can't bid the sun go backward no not even ten degrees | G |
John Le Gay Brereton
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