Shadows Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DBDDB EFEEF| quot Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign | A |
| On fair islands that we would command | B |
| But clouds that are darker and denser than these | C |
| Have sailed from an Isle in the Northern Seas | C |
| And rest on our Southern Land | B |
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| Low in dust is our Goddess of Liberty hurled | D |
| At our feet and the time is at hand | B |
| When we the proud sons of the southern world | D |
| Beneath a proud banner of freedom unfurled | D |
| And true to each other shall stand | B |
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| If e'er in the ranks of the Right we advance | E |
| Though our enemies come like a flood | F |
| We'll meet them like lions aroused from our trance | E |
| And show that a streak of the Olden Romance | E |
| Still runs in our commonplace blood | F |
Henry Lawson
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