Bindle Stiff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMNM MOMOEBEB| When I was brash and gallant gay | A |
| Just fifty years ago | B |
| I hit the ties and beat my way | A |
| From Maine to Mexico | B |
| For though to Glasgow gutter bred | C |
| A hobo heart had I | D |
| And followed where adventure led | C |
| Beneath a brazen sky | D |
| - | |
| And as I tramped the railway track | E |
| I owned a single shirt | F |
| Like canny Scot I bought it black | E |
| So's not to show the dirt | F |
| A handkerchief held all my gear | G |
| My razor and my comb | H |
| I was a freckless lad I fear | G |
| With all the world for home | H |
| - | |
| Yet oh I thought the life was grand | I |
| And loved my liberty | J |
| Romance was my bed fellow and | K |
| The stars my company | J |
| And I would think each diamond dawn | L |
| How I have forged my fate | M |
| Where are the Gorbals and the Tron | N |
| And where the Gallowgate | M |
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| Oh daft was I to wander wild | M |
| And seek the Trouble Trail | O |
| As weakly as a wayward child | M |
| And darkly doomed to fail | O |
| Aye bindle stiff I hit the track | E |
| Just fifty years ago | B |
| Yet now I drive my Cadillac | E |
| From Maine to Mexico | B |
Robert William Service
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