The Younger Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MBMBBNBN OPOPQBQB RSRSTETE| If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land | A |
| Where all except the flag is strange and new | B |
| There's a bronzed and stalwart fellow who will grip you by the hand | A |
| And greet you with a welcome warm and true | B |
| For he's your younger brother the one you sent away | C |
| Because there wasn't room for him at home | D |
| And now he's quite contented and he's glad he didn't stay | C |
| And he's building Britain's greatness o'er the foam | D |
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| When the giant herd is moving at the rising of the sun | E |
| And the prairie is lit with rose and gold | F |
| And the camp is all abustle and the busy day's begun | E |
| He leaps into the saddle sure and bold | F |
| Through the round of heat and hurry through the racket and the rout | G |
| He rattles at a pace that nothing mars | H |
| And when the night winds whisper and camp fires flicker out | G |
| He is sleeping like a child beneath the stars | H |
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| When the wattle blooms are drooping in the sombre she oak glade | I |
| And the breathless land is lying in a swoon | J |
| He leaves his work a moment leaning lightly on his spade | I |
| And he hears the bell bird chime the Austral noon | J |
| The parrakeets are silent in the gum tree by the creek | K |
| The ferny grove is sunshine steeped and still | L |
| But the dew will gem the myrtle in the twilight ere he seek | K |
| His little lonely cabin on the hill | L |
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| Around the purple vine clad slope the argent river dreams | M |
| The roses almost hide the house from view | B |
| A snow peak of the Winterberg in crimson splendor gleams | M |
| The shadow deepens down on the karroo | B |
| He seeks the lily scented dusk beneath the orange tree | B |
| His pipe in silence glows and fades and glows | N |
| And then two little maids come out and climb upon his knee | B |
| And one is like the lily one the rose | N |
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| He sees his white sheep dapple o'er the green New Zealand plain | O |
| And where Vancouver's shaggy ramparts frown | P |
| When the sunlight threads the pine gloom he is fighting might and main | O |
| To clinch the rivets of an Empire down | P |
| You will find him toiling toiling in the south or in the west | Q |
| A child of nature fearless frank and free | B |
| And the warmest heart that beats for you is beating in his breast | Q |
| And he sends you loyal greeting o'er the sea | B |
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| You've a brother in the army you've another in the Church | R |
| One of you is a diplomatic swell | S |
| You've had the pick of everything and left him in the lurch | R |
| And yet I think he's doing very well | S |
| I'm sure his life is happy and he doesn't envy yours | T |
| I know he loves the land his pluck has won | E |
| And I fancy in the years unborn while England's fame endures | T |
| She will come to bless with pride The Younger Son | E |
Robert Service
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