Fighting Hard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCCC DDEEC FFCCC GGHHC GGIJCK C| Rolling out to fight for England singing songs across the sea | A |
| Rolling North to fight for England and to fight for you and me | A |
| Fighting hard for France and England where the storms of Death are hurled | B |
| Fighting hard for Australasia and the honour of the World | B |
| Fighting hard | C |
| Fighting hard for Sunny Queensland fighting for Bananaland | C |
| Fighting hard for West Australia and the mulga and the sand | C |
| Fighting hard for Plain and Wool Track and the haze of western heat | C |
| Fighting hard for South Australia and the bronze of Farrar s Wheat | C |
| Fighting hard | C |
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| Fighting hard for fair Victoria and the mountain and the glen | D |
| And the Memory of Eureka there were other tyrants then | D |
| For the glorious Gippsland forests and the World s great Singing Star | E |
| For the irrigation channels where the cabbage gardens are | E |
| Fighting hard | C |
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| Fighting hard for gale and earthquake and the wind swept ports between | F |
| For the wild flax and manuka and the terraced hills of green | F |
| Fighting hard for wooden homesteads where the mighty kauris stand | C |
| Fighting hard for fern and tussock Fighting hard for Maoriland | C |
| Fighting hard | C |
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| Fighting hard for little Tassy where the apple orchards grow | G |
| And the Northern Territory just to give the place a show | G |
| Fighting hard for Home and Empire while the Commonwealth prevails | H |
| And in spite of all her blunders dying hard for New South Wales | H |
| Dying hard | C |
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| Fighting for the Pride of Old Folk and the people that you know | G |
| And the girl you left behind you ah the time is passing slow | G |
| For the proud tears of a sister come you back or never come | I |
| And the weary Elder Brother looking after things at home | J |
| Fighting Hard | C |
| You Lucky Devils | K |
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| Fighting hard | C |
Henry Lawson
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