Fall In, My Men, Fall In Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADAD EFEFGDGD HIGIJDKD LMJMNDND ODODOPOP| The short hour's halt is ended | A |
| The red gone from the west | B |
| The broken wheel is mended | C |
| And the dead men laid to rest | B |
| Three days have we retreated | A |
| The brave old Curse and Grin | D |
| Outnumbered and defeated | A |
| Fall in my men fall in | D |
| - | |
| Poor weary hungry sinners | E |
| Past caring and past fear | F |
| The camp fires of the winners | E |
| Are gleaming in the rear | F |
| Each day their front advances | G |
| Each day the same old din | D |
| But freedom holds the chances | G |
| Fall in my men fall in | D |
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| Despair's cold fingers searches | H |
| The sky is black ahead | I |
| We leave in barns and churches | G |
| Our wounded and our dead | I |
| Through cold and rain and darkness | J |
| And mire that clogs like sin | D |
| In failure in its starkness | K |
| Fall in my men fall in | D |
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| We go and know not whither | L |
| Nor see the tracks we go | M |
| A horseman gaunt shall tell us | J |
| A rain veiled light shall show | M |
| By wood and swamp and mountain | N |
| The long dark hours begin | D |
| Before our fresh wounds stiffen | N |
| Fall in my men fall in | D |
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| With old wounds dully aching | O |
| Fall in my men fall in | D |
| See yonder starlight breaking | O |
| Through rifts where storm clouds thin | D |
| See yonder clear sky arching | O |
| The distant range upon | P |
| I'll plan while we are marching | O |
| Move on my men march on | P |
Henry Lawson
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