A Song Of Anzac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC BBDDBBD EEFF GGBBBBB HHIIHJJBBKKB LLMMLNBBOPKKP| 'When I'm sittin' in me dug out with me rifle on me knees | A |
| An' a yowlin' 'owlin' chorus comes a floatin' up the breeze | A |
| Just a bit o' 'Bonnie Mary' | B |
| Or 'Long Way to Tipperary' | B |
| Then I know I'm in Australia took an' planted overseas ' | C |
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| So we sang in days remembered fateful days of pain and war | B |
| When the young lads went forth singing ship bound for an unknown shore | B |
| They were singing ever singing careless lads in careworn days | D |
| Sturdy youths but yet unblooded to red war's unholy ways | D |
| From a land untouched by slaughter | B |
| Fared they forth across the water | B |
| Some to Destiny's grim gateway where the scarlet poppy sways | D |
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| 'They were singin' on the troopship they were singin' in the train | E |
| When they left their land behind them they were shoutin' a refrain | E |
| An' I'll bet they have a chorus | F |
| Gay an' glad in greetin' for us | F |
| When their bit of scrappin's over an' they sail back home again ' | - |
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| So we sang to dull the aching that was looming even then | G |
| When the boys went out to battle to come back stern fighting men | G |
| So we strove to keep hope buoyant while they lived untouched by war | B |
| But they came back not with singing when those anxious days were o'er | B |
| Disillusioned and war weary | B |
| And for all their smiles were cheery | B |
| Some came bitter some came broken some they came back nevermore | B |
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| And today again they're marching rugged veterans grey and grave | H |
| These who joined the carefree chorus shouting many an olden stave | H |
| To the tramping cohorts' motion | I |
| To the rolling of the ocean | I |
| In their singing seeking kinship that high youth must ever crave | H |
| Aye today again they're marching with old faith and fellowship | J |
| Grave and grey with memory marching but no song lifts to the lip | J |
| Year by year the Boys are gathered year by year the count grows fewer | B |
| But the flame new lit on Anzac goes before them burning pure | B |
| And the Song of Anzac ringing | K |
| High above them sounding swinging | K |
| Tells that memory of Anzac shall endure while these endure | B |
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| They are marching with the old days with the singing in their hearts | L |
| With the memory of mateship that for not one hour departs | L |
| Silent men with sober faces | M |
| Marking now the vacant places | M |
| Yearly growing yearly showing where life ends and hope re starts | L |
| That trimphant Song of Anzac that the living Anzac hears | N |
| Hears imperfectly and dimly | B |
| As he tramps on gravely grimly | B |
| Haunts the old familiar roadway he has trodden thro' the years | O |
| Done are these with youth's vain dreaming who have yet to pay earth's price | P |
| These who harked to young mates singing | K |
| These who saw their young souls winging | K |
| Ever singing blithely singing to the gates of Paradise | P |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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