The Younger Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MBMBBNBN OPOPQBQB RSRSTETEIf 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 William Service
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