Thomas Joseph Byrnes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABABCCCDCD EEEFEF GGGHGH| God gave him gifts nor gave in vain | A |
| The great heart and the master brain | A |
| To dream to battle to attain | A |
| To storm the height | B |
| The power that all men strive to gain | A |
| Was his by right | B |
| O saddest Spring in all the land | C |
| O Mystery hard to understand | C |
| When at the stern unknown command | C |
| With icy breath | D |
| Fate placed within his fearless hand | C |
| The gift of Death | D |
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| Calm be his sleep who lived to dare | E |
| Go say a patriot slumbers there | E |
| Whose brows were never bent to wear | E |
| His loftiest fame | F |
| Yet wrote on Queensland s page a rare | E |
| A fadeless name | F |
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| He fought his fight he won his goal | G |
| His name is on the battle scroll | G |
| And whilst beyond our weak control | G |
| The tears we shed | H |
| Well deep within a Nation s soul | G |
| He is not dead | H |
George Essex Evans
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