Nemesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIGG JJKKLL MNOOPP QQRRSS OTUUOT VVWWXY

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It is night time when the saddest and the darkest memories hauntB
When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flauntB
When the love wrong is accomplished And I think of things and markC
That the blackest lies are written told and printed after darkC
Tis the time of late editions It is night when as of oldD
Foulest things are done for hatred for ambition love and goldD
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Racing from the senseless city down the dull suburban streetsE
Come again the ragged newsboys yelping with their paltry sheetsE
Lying posters meaning nothing double columns meaning lessF
Twisted facts and reckless falsehoods dodges of the Daily PressF
In the town the roar and rattle of the great machines once moreG
Greedy for the extra penny while the Public howls for warG
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War because of one poor blunder made in panic far awayH
While a thousand men were lying on the battlefield to dayH
Dead heaped on the helpless dying blinded eyes and brains that swimI
Parched or choked with their own life blood battered head and broken limbI
Wounds too ghastly to be pictured Things to seem like men no moreG
Crying out to Christ for water and oblivion that is warG
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And the poets of the nation singing birds or carrion birdsJ
Bluff with cheap alliteration and the boom of empty wordsJ
Catch the crowd with cheating phrases as a jingo laureate flingsK
Recklessly his high defiance in the grinning teeth of ThingsK
They pretend to lead who follow this day s crowd with lying tactL
Let them fling their high defiance in the stony face of FactL
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And so Russia maimed and baited seeing nought but storm to comeM
Sailed upon a desperate venture cursed by treachery at homeN
Seeing danger in each shadow thinking doubtless now and thenO
Of the swift fate of her warship with its seven hundred menO
And she struck out in the darkness at the ally of her foeP
Struck out blindly as a wounded dying bear might strike a blowP
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Ah we well might howl for vengeance we who killed for killing s sakeQ
Murdered helpless men in daylight in cold blood by no mistakeQ
We who burnt the homes of women when the nights were cold and dampR
We who murdered little children in the concentration campR
When the farmers downed the lion for a season in his prideS
Say did Russia take advantage then while England s hands were tiedS
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Wipe away the blood that binds you struggle to your feet againO
Shake them from your shoulders Ivan Ivan nearly mad with painT
You must fight it single handed on the deck or in the trenchU
Look not to the boorish German Look not to the fickle FrenchU
Rather look to blinded England when her sight is clear againO
And remember in the future there is chivalry in SpainT
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Scoff at Russia on the ocean and her helplessness forgetV
But on land the braggart Mongol has not done with Ivan yetV
He s a fierce and cruel tyrant we are not as others areW
But his slaves would die by thousands for their country and the CzarW
While a single broken column drags a battery through the mireX
And a single battered cruiser has a gun that she can fireY

Henry Lawson



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