El Mahdi To The Australian Troops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDDD FGGFHI JKKJLL| And wherefore have they come this warlike band | A |
| That o'er the ocean many a weary day | B |
| Have tossed and now beside Suakim's Bay | B |
| With faces stern and resolute do stand | A |
| Waking the desert's echoes with the drum | C |
| Men of Australia wherefore have ye come | C |
| To keep the Puppet Khedive on the throne | D |
| To strike a blow for tyranny and wrong | E |
| To crush the weak and aid the oppressing strong | E |
| Regardless of the hapless Fellah's moan | D |
| To force the payment of the Hebrew loan | D |
| Squeezing the tax like blood from out the stone | D |
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| And fair Australia freest of the free | F |
| Is up in arms against the freeman's fight | G |
| And with her mother joined to crush the right | G |
| Has left her threatened treasures o'er the sea | F |
| Has left her land of liberty and law | H |
| To flesh her maiden sword in this unholy war | I |
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| Enough God never blessed such enterprise | J |
| England's degenerate Generals yet shall rue | K |
| Brave Gordon sacrificed when soon they view | K |
| The children of a thousand deserts rise | J |
| To drive them forth like sand before the gale | L |
| God and the Prophet Freedom will prevail | L |
Banjo Paterson
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