Welcome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDCDCEEFGFHIHIH JJKLKAMLML NNONONANAN| Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea | A |
| We welcome thee | A |
| Thy ensign floats above our harbour mouth | B |
| A fairy s hand | C |
| Has decked the great Queen City of the South | B |
| By arch and roof in bannered street and stand | C |
| The vast crowd waits | D |
| The cannon thunder greeting from the strand | C |
| But in our hearts a deeper note vibrates | D |
| The loving welcome of a loyal land | C |
| Tis the same race that from the iron North | E |
| Went faring forth | E |
| Flying the flag of England at the fore | F |
| Nor saw again | G |
| The masted city with its ceaseless roar | F |
| The flower flecked meadow and the leafy lane | H |
| The steepled hill | I |
| Or ivied ruin rising from the plain | H |
| But for a sign that they remembered still | I |
| Built Greater Britains over all the main | H |
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| For thee and her who comes with thee to grace | J |
| Our land and race | J |
| Five million hearts beat with a welcome leal | K |
| North South and West | L |
| Not in a day was built this Commonweal | K |
| Slow with our lives we built it nor confes t | A |
| How stern our fears | M |
| Thro drought and flood in fever and unrest | L |
| Its tale the courage of laborious years | M |
| And for a seal the life blood of our best | L |
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| Is she not fair whose morning thrills the East | N |
| Youngest not least | N |
| Of all those Britains that one isle has sown | O |
| One faith impearled | N |
| In world wide union We can hold our own | O |
| Gainst us in vain all envious shafts are hurled | N |
| If still we be | A |
| The Sons of Freedom neath one flag unfurled | N |
| Co heirs of Fame and Wardens of the Sea | A |
| One tongue one race one heart before the world | N |
George Essex Evans
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