For Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FFAA GGHH HHII AAJJKK| Now with the wars of the world begun they'll listen to you and me | A |
| Now while the frightened nations run to the arms of democracy | A |
| Now when our blathering fools are scared and the years have proved us right | B |
| All unprovided and unprepared the Outpost of the White | B |
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| Get the people no matter how that is the way they rave | C |
| Could a million paupers aid us now or a tinpot squadron save | C |
| The loyal drivel the blatant boast are as shames that used to be | A |
| Our fight shall be a fight for the coast with the future for the sea | A |
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| We must turn our face to the only track that will take us through the worst | D |
| Cable to charter that we lack guns and cartridges first | D |
| New machines that will make machines till our factories are complete | E |
| Block the shoddy and Brummagem pay them with wool and wheat | E |
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| Build to morrow the foundry shed 'tis a task we dare not shirk | F |
| Lay the runs and the engine bed and get the gear to work | F |
| Have no fear when we raise the steam in the hurried factory | A |
| We are not lacking in the brains that teem with originality | A |
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| Have no fear for the way is clear we'll shackle the hands of greed | G |
| Every lad is an engineer in his country's hour of need | G |
| Many are brilliant swift to learn quick at invention too | H |
| Born inventors whose young hearts burn to show what the South can do | H |
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| To show what the South can do done well and more than the North can do | H |
| They'll make us the cartridge and make the shell and the gun to carry true | H |
| Give us the gear and the South is strong and the docks shall yield us more | I |
| The national arm like the national song comes with the first great war | I |
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| Books of science from every land volumes on gunnery | A |
| Practical teachers we have at hand masters of chemistry | A |
| Clear young heads that will sift and think in spite of authorities | J |
| And brains that shall leap from invention's brink at the clash of factories | J |
| Still be noble in peace or war raise the national spirit high | K |
| And this be our watchword for evermore For Australia till we die | K |
Henry Lawson
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