"ave Ceasar" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC ADADECEC FGFGCCCC CHCHCCCC| Long ago the Gladiators | A |
| When the call to combat came | B |
| Marching past the massed spectators | A |
| Hailed the Emp'ror with acclaim | B |
| Voices ringing with the fury | C |
| Of the strife so soon to be | C |
| Cried O Caesar morituri | C |
| salutamus te | C |
| - | |
| Nowadays the massed spectators | A |
| See the unaccustomed sight | D |
| Legislative gladiators | A |
| Marching to their last great fight | D |
| Young and old obscure and famous | E |
| Hand to hand and knee to knee | C |
| Hear the war cry Salutamus | E |
| morituri te | C |
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| Fight Nor be the fight suspended | F |
| Till the corpses strew the plain | G |
| Ere the grisly strife be ended | F |
| Five and thirty must be slain | G |
| Slay and spare not lest another | C |
| Haply may discomfit thee | C |
| Brother now must war with brother | C |
| Salutamus te | C |
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| War torn vet'ran skilled debater | C |
| Trickster famed of bridge and road | H |
| Now for each grim gladiator | C |
| Gapes Oblivion's drear abode | H |
| Should the last great final jury | C |
| Turn their thumbs down it must be | C |
| Ave Caesar morituri | C |
| salutamus te | C |
Banjo Paterson
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