A Song Of The Republic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACB DBEDDB FGFFFG HBHHHB| Sons of the South awake arise | A |
| Sons of the South and do | B |
| Banish from under your bonny skies | A |
| Those old world errors and wrongs and lies | A |
| Making a hell in a Paradise | C |
| That belongs to your sons and you | B |
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| Sons of the South make choice between | D |
| Sons of the South choose true | B |
| The Land of Morn and the Land of E'en | E |
| The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green | D |
| The Land that belongs to the lord and the Queen | D |
| And the Land that belongs to you | B |
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| Sons of the South your time will come | F |
| Sons of the South 'tis near | G |
| The Signs of the Times in their language dumb | F |
| Fortell it and ominous whispers hum | F |
| Like sullen sounds of a distant drum | F |
| In the ominous atmosphere | G |
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| Sons of the South aroused at last | H |
| Sons of the South are few | B |
| But your ranks grow longer and deeper fast | H |
| And ye shall swell to an army vast | H |
| And free from the wrongs of the North and Past | H |
| The land that belongs to you | B |
Henry Lawson
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