Breathing-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOKK PPPPQQEE RRPPSTUU PPPPGGV PPWWXXP YYZZWW| Peace perfect peace Come lay aside your gun | A |
| The danger zone is past the gauntlet run | A |
| The bark of Scylla ceases on her shore | B |
| And grim Charybdis threatens us no more | B |
| Respite Nepenthe leaning posts and beer | C |
| Football and horses Breathing time is here | D |
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| O witless fools who with your cry 'To Arms ' | - |
| Your warnings venomous and false alarms | E |
| Sought to estrange us from our yellow friends | F |
| Thus all your potter and your bunkum ends | F |
| We are secure once more we breathe again | G |
| No further need is there for ships or men | G |
| 'The Treaty is renewed ' Hip Hip Hooray | H |
| Now let us dream the happy hours away | H |
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| One pen stroke and our liberty appears | I |
| Secure again for ten long blissful years | I |
| A diplomat or two a little ink | J |
| Some paper and Hi Presto in a wink | J |
| The Yellow Peril vanishes from sight | K |
| Like vague dream shadows of a restless night | K |
| Let gentleness and peace overspread the land | L |
| And bid our infant warriors disband | L |
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| The War god broods o'er Europe even yet | M |
| What matter We've a decade to forget | M |
| That e'er we dreamed we heard the grim dogs bark | N |
| What child at noon is fearful of the dark | N |
| The forges of the nations still are lit | O |
| Their anvils ring What do we reek of it | O |
| With ten long years of peace and joy and light | K |
| We laugh at our vague terrors of the night | K |
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| Are truces ever broken Treaties scorned | P |
| Statesmen corrupted Diplomats suborned | P |
| Perish the thought What if in some far day | P |
| Some foreswom nation flung its bond away | P |
| Shall we for such as that forego our joy | Q |
| And start at shadows like a frightened boy | Q |
| Shall croaking pessimists with mild alarms | E |
| Force us all needlessly to fly to arms | E |
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| Down with the dolts who prate of ships and guns | R |
| Stern Mars shall not enslave Australia's sons | R |
| Come gag the fools who urge us to defend | P |
| Our ports against our harmless yellow friend | P |
| Their words are insults their aggressiveness | S |
| May give him pain and cause us much distress | T |
| Ab gaze on him as he steps forth to sign | U |
| Say is his smile not peaceful and benign | U |
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| Ten years to hoard the gold in shop and mart | P |
| Ten peaceful years to play the trader's part | P |
| To tend the sheep to watch the green corn sprout | P |
| To cheer the race to gaily clap and shout | P |
| At sports of children played by heedless men | G |
| Ten years of sweet Areadia and then | G |
| Heed not the voice that thunders the alarm | V |
| 'Ten years to play the man Ten years to arm ' | - |
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| O God of Battles who thus long hath spared | P |
| A heedless nation grant we be prepared | P |
| Ten pregnant years Tens canty years of grace | W |
| To make or mar the fortune of a race | W |
| Grim years of strenuous and unceasing toil | X |
| That all may not become a foeman's spoil | X |
| That it may not be told some fateful day | P |
| 'Ten years they had ten years they fooled away ' | - |
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| Peace perfect peace Ho let the fun begin | Y |
| And split the welkin with a joyous din | Y |
| Charybdis grim has ceased to roar and rave | Z |
| And Scylla sits demurely in her cave | Z |
| Ho clash the cymbals and begin the race | W |
| And thank the gods we have a breathing space | W |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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