Freedom On The Wallaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBACA DEFEGHIH FJCJKCLC MLNBGOGO BOBOBPQP| Australia's a big country | A |
| An' Freedom's humping bluey | A |
| An' Freedom's on the wallaby | A |
| Oh don't you hear 'er cooey | B |
| She's just begun to boomerang | B |
| She'll knock the tyrants silly | A |
| She's goin' to light another fire | C |
| And boil another billy | A |
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| Our fathers toiled for bitter bread | D |
| While loafers thrived beside 'em | E |
| But food to eat and clothes to wear | F |
| Their native land denied 'em | E |
| An' so they left their native land | G |
| In spite of their devotion | H |
| An' so they came or if they stole | I |
| Were sent across the ocean | H |
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| Then Freedom couldn't stand the glare | F |
| O' Royalty's regalia | J |
| She left the loafers where they were | C |
| An' came out to Australia | J |
| But now across the mighty main | K |
| The chains have come ter bind her | C |
| She little thought to see again | L |
| The wrongs she left behind her | C |
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| Our parents toil'd to make a home | M |
| Hard grubbin 'twas an' clearin' | L |
| They wasn't crowded much with lords | N |
| When they was pioneering | B |
| But now that we have made the land | G |
| A garden full of promise | O |
| Old Greed must crook 'is dirty hand | G |
| And come ter take it from us | O |
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| So we must fly a rebel flag | B |
| As others did before us | O |
| And we must sing a rebel song | B |
| And join in rebel chorus | O |
| We'll make the tyrants feel the sting | B |
| O' those that they would throttle | P |
| They needn't say the fault is ours | Q |
| If blood should stain the wattle | P |
Henry Lawson
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