"we're All Australians Now" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI JKJK BIBI LMLM HNHN COCO PIPI QRQC NSTU NITI| Australia takes her pen in hand | A |
| To write a line to you | B |
| To let you fellows understand | A |
| How proud we are of you | B |
| From shearing shed and cattle run | C |
| From Broome to Hobson's Bay | D |
| Each native born Australian son | C |
| Stands straighter up today | D |
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| The man who used to hump his drum | E |
| On far out Queensland runs | F |
| Is fighting side by side with some | E |
| Tasmanian farmer's sons | F |
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| The fisher boys dropped sail and oar | G |
| To grimly stand the test | H |
| Along that storm swept Turkish shore | G |
| With miners from the west | H |
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| The old state jealousies of yore | G |
| Are dead as Pharaoh's sow | I |
| We're not State children any more | G |
| We're all Australians now | I |
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| Our six starred flag that used to fly | J |
| Half shyly to the breeze | K |
| Unknown where older nations ply | J |
| Their trade on foreign seas | K |
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| Flies out to meet the morning blue | B |
| With Vict'ry at the prow | I |
| For that's the flag the Sydney flew | B |
| The wide seas know it now | I |
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| The mettle that a race can show | L |
| Is proved with shot and steel | M |
| And now we know what nations know | L |
| And feel what nations feel | M |
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| The honoured graves beneath the crest | H |
| Of Gaba Tepe hill | N |
| May hold our bravest and our best | H |
| But we have brave men still | N |
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| With all our petty quarrels done | C |
| Dissensions overthrown | O |
| We have through what you boys have done | C |
| A history of our own | O |
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| Our old world diff'rences are dead | P |
| Like weeds beneath the plough | I |
| For English Scotch and Irish bred | P |
| They're all Australians now | I |
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| So now we'll toast the Third Brigade | Q |
| That led Australia's van | R |
| For never shall their glory fade | Q |
| In minds Australian | C |
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| Fight on fight on unflinchingly | N |
| Till right and justice reign | S |
| Fight on fight on till Victory | T |
| Shall send you home again | U |
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| And with Australia's flag shall fly | N |
| A spray of wattle bough | I |
| To symbolise our unity | T |
| We're all Australians now | I |
Banjo Paterson
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