The Last Parade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGCG CHCH IJKG CLML NOCO PQKQ KRCR CSIS FCTC IUCU FBCB| With never a sound of trumpet | A |
| With never a flag displayed | B |
| The last of the old campaigners | C |
| Lined up for the last parade | B |
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| Weary they were and battered | D |
| Shoeless and knocked about | E |
| From under their ragged forelocks | C |
| Their hungry eyes looked out | E |
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| And they watched as the old commander | F |
| Read out to the cheering men | G |
| The Nation's thanks and the orders | C |
| To carry them home again | G |
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| And the last of the old campaigners | C |
| Sinewy lean and spare | H |
| He spoke for his hungry comrades | C |
| Have we not done our share | H |
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| Starving and tired and thirsty | I |
| We limped on the blazing plain | J |
| And after a long night's picket | K |
| You saddled us up again | G |
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| We froze on the windswept kopjes | C |
| When the frost lay snowy white | L |
| Never a halt in the daytime | M |
| Never a rest at night | L |
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| We knew when the rifles rattled | N |
| From the hillside bare and brown | O |
| And over our weary shoulders | C |
| We felt warm blood run down | O |
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| As we turned for the stretching gallop | P |
| Crushed to the earth with weight | Q |
| But we carried our riders through it | K |
| Sometimes perhaps too late | Q |
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| Steel We were steel to stand it | K |
| We that have lasted through | R |
| We that are old campaigners | C |
| Pitiful poor and few | R |
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| Over the sea you brought us | C |
| Over the leagues of foam | S |
| Now we have served you fairly | I |
| Will you not take us home | S |
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| Home to the Hunter River | F |
| To the flats where the lucerne grows | C |
| Home where the Murrumbidgee | T |
| Runs white with the melted snows | C |
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| This is a small thing surely | I |
| Will not you give command | U |
| That the last of the old campaigners | C |
| Go back to their native land | U |
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| They looked at the grim commander | F |
| But never a sign he made | B |
| Dismiss and the old campaigners | C |
| Moved off from their last parade | B |
Banjo Paterson
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