Lichtenberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBADEFE GHGHAEFE AAAAIJFE KLKLAEFE BABAAJFE| New South Wales Contingent | A |
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| Smells are surer than sounds or sights | B |
| To make your heart strings crack | C |
| They start those awful voices o' nights | B |
| That whisper quot Old man come back quot | A |
| That must be why the big things pass | D |
| And the little things remain | E |
| Like the smell of the wattle by Lichtenberg | F |
| Riding in in the rain | E |
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| There was some silly fire on the flank | G |
| And the small wet drizzling down | H |
| There were the sold out shops and the bank | G |
| And the wet wide open town | H |
| And we were doing escort duty | A |
| To somebody's baggage train | E |
| And I smelt wattle by Lichtenberg | F |
| Riding in in the rain | E |
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| It was all Australia to me | A |
| All I had found or missed | A |
| Every face I was crazy to see | A |
| And every woman I'd kissed | A |
| All that I should n't ha' done God knows | I |
| As He knows I'll do it again | J |
| That smell of the wattle round Lichtenberg | F |
| Riding in in the rain | E |
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| And I saw Sydney the same as ever | K |
| The picnics and brass bands | L |
| And my little homestead on Hunter River | K |
| And my new vines joining hands | L |
| It all came over me in one act | A |
| Quick as a shot through the brain | E |
| With the smell of the wattle round Lichtenberg | F |
| Riding in in the rain | E |
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| I have forgotten a hundred fights | B |
| But one I shall not forget | A |
| With the raindrops bunging up my sights | B |
| And my eyes bunged up with wet | A |
| And through the crack and the stink of the cordite | A |
| Ah Christ My country again | J |
| The smell of the wattle by Lichtenberg | F |
| Riding in in the rain | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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