Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCC DDD EEF AAA GGG HHH III JJJ HHH KKK LLL| Earth's mightiest isle She stands alone | A |
| The wide seas wash around Her throne | A |
| Crowned by the red sun as his own | A |
| This is the last of all the lands | B |
| Where Freedom s fray torn banner stands | B |
| Not wrested yet from freemen s hands | B |
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| The world s gray page lies bare to day | C |
| The rise of nations the decay | C |
| Will She too rise and fall as they | C |
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| She called men to Her and they came | D |
| Whose deaths have given the Desert name | D |
| Their fame is written with Her fame | D |
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| We toil and strive We have our hour | E |
| But She shall grow from power to power | E |
| To wear the splendour of her dower | F |
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| The trust is ours to us alone | A |
| We are the strong foundation stone | A |
| The seed from which the flower is grown | A |
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| And whilst a realm in fee we hold | G |
| To guard the New against the Old | G |
| Nor take the glitter for the gold | G |
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| What shall it profit Her if we | H |
| Make gold our God and strength our plea | H |
| And call wild license Liberty | H |
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| If in our scorn of creed and king | I |
| All reverence to the winds we fling | I |
| And fall before a baser thing | I |
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| Though in Her coming hour of pride | J |
| Her millions throng the Desert wide | J |
| Her cities stud the water side | J |
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| What though Her sword unconquered be | H |
| Her armoured navies sweep the sea | H |
| If still Her people are not free | H |
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| To be the wave of thought indeed | K |
| From New World vaunt and Old World need | K |
| To manlier day and mightier deed | K |
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| To be a people proved and strong | L |
| True freemen of the Poet s song | L |
| For whom the world has waited long | L |
George Essex Evans
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