Anzac Square: What The Digger Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD ECCEFF GHHGCC IJJIHH KLLKGG IMMINN OCCOPP QRRQN| Said the Digger 'Soon forgot Soon forgot the deeds of war | A |
| Better so may be Why not | B |
| Beauty fades and laurels rot | B |
| Last year's roses are no more | A |
| Fame ' the one armed Digger said | C |
| 'What of glory when you're dead ' | D |
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| 'Stone and brass ' the Digger said 'Stone and brass tho' these endure | E |
| Marble flaunting o'er my head | C |
| Would be dead as I'd be dead | C |
| How may any man be sure | E |
| That the hearts of men shall hold | F |
| Memories of tales once told | F |
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| This alone I surely know earth I am and earth shall be | G |
| Only Mother Earth can show | H |
| When I go where all men go | H |
| Aught of this that had been me | G |
| Mother Earth once stained so red | C |
| She must know ' the Digger said | C |
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| 'Would you raise in braggart heaps stone cold stone to mark the fame | I |
| Of full many a man who sleeps | J |
| Where the earth of Anzac keeps | J |
| Guard o'er legions lacking name | I |
| Plinth and pillar reared to show | H |
| Pomp and pride they cannot know | H |
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| 'They ask no portentous pile boasting to a heedless sky | K |
| Stirring men a little while | L |
| Subject then for sigh or smile | L |
| Not for this do soldiers die | K |
| With our passing let Pride be | G |
| All we ask is Memory | G |
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| 'Memory of such fair worth as a fighting man may claim | I |
| And a plot of hallowed earth | M |
| In the city of our birth | M |
| Earth that bears a hallowed name | I |
| Let it be envisioned there | N |
| Anzac worth in Anzac Square | N |
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| 'Memory ' the Digger said 'If so be the city judge | O |
| Soldiers worthy who have bled | C |
| Worthy of her love the dead | C |
| Shall the city then begrudge | O |
| One wide acre of her soil | P |
| For who saved the whole from spoil | P |
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| 'Here it may be by God's grace our son's sons may sit at last | Q |
| In the People's market place | R |
| Knowing truly as they trace | R |
| Memory of me long past | Q |
| 'Tis enshrined forever there | N |
| Anzac worth in Anzac Square ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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