The Lion's Whelps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBEFFBDGHIGGJKKG LMNOMMPIIM| There is scarlet on his forehead | A |
| There are scars across his face | B |
| Tis the bloody dew of battle dripping down dripping down | C |
| But the war heart of the Lion | D |
| Turns to iron in its place | B |
| When he halts to face disaster when he turns to meet disgrace | B |
| Stung and keen and mettled with the life blood of his own | E |
| Let the hunters ware who flout him | F |
| When he calls his whelps about him | F |
| When he sets the goal before him and he settles to the pace | B |
| Tricked and wounded Are we beaten | D |
| Though they hold our strength at play | G |
| We have faced these things aforetimes long ago long ago | H |
| From sunlit Sydney Harbour | I |
| And ten thousand miles away | G |
| From the far Canadian forests to the Sounds of Milford Bay | G |
| They have answered they have answered and we know the answer now | J |
| From the Britains such as these | K |
| Strewn across the world wide seas | K |
| Comes the rally and the bugle note that makes us one to day | G |
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| Beaten Let them come against us | L |
| We can meet them one and all | M |
| We have faced the World aforetimes not in vain not in vain | N |
| Twice ten thousand hearths be widowed | O |
| Twice ten thousand hearts may fall | M |
| But a million voices answer We are ready for the call | M |
| And the sword we draw for Justice shall not see its sheath again | P |
| Nor our cannon cease to thunder | I |
| Till we break their strength asunder | I |
| And the Lion s whelps are round him and the Old Flag over all | M |
George Essex Evans
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