Skaal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCDCEFGF HIIIEJEJ BFBFBIBI BKBKEIEI EFEFDLEL FMIMEIEI EIIIBNBN BFIF| While they struggle on exhausted | A |
| While they plough through bog and flood | A |
| While they drag their sick and wounded | A |
| Where the tracks are drenched with blood | A |
| While the Fates seemed joined to crush her | B |
| And her bravest hearts lie low | C |
| I might sing one song for Russia | D |
| Even though she be our foe | C |
| Still be generous to foemen | E |
| And have charity for all | F |
| Right or wrong fill up the wine cup | G |
| Skaal unto all brave men Skaal | F |
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| While they suffer cold and hungry | H |
| All the heart break of defeat | I |
| And the twice heroic rearguard | I |
| Grimly holds the grim retreat | I |
| While they fight the last alive on | E |
| Fields where countless corpses are | J |
| We might drop one tear for Ivan | E |
| Dead for Russia and the Czar | J |
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| Sullen grief of boorish brother | B |
| Sister s scalding tears that flow | F |
| Choking grief of grey haired mother | B |
| Father s stony face bent low | F |
| Hopeless stare of wife or daughter | B |
| And the sweetheart dumb and white | I |
| And the far off fields of slaughter | B |
| Where their Ivan lies to night | I |
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| Even England feared disaster | B |
| With all Europe in despair | K |
| In the days when Europe s master | B |
| Baited Bruin in his lair | K |
| Greater nations made submission | E |
| And a tyrant s yoke they earned | I |
| But The Man with curbed ambition | E |
| Staggered back while Moscow burned | I |
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| Burned to save the world from ruin | E |
| That dark winter long ago | F |
| Ah the gaunt and hunted Bruin | E |
| Hugged the tyrant in the snow | F |
| We can cry the crimes of Russia | D |
| Who know naught of Russia s work | L |
| We who died to conquer freemen | E |
| We who fought to save the Turk | L |
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| Ah we well may cant and cackle | F |
| In the streets and in the clubs | M |
| While the Russia that we know not | I |
| Licks her wounds and feeds her cubs | M |
| But the Fates for ever beckon | E |
| Every nation has its debt | I |
| And her foes may have to reckon | E |
| Reckon with der Russland yet | I |
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| Through long ages slept the Dragon | E |
| We have roused the ugly beast | I |
| Russia still may stand the vanguard | I |
| Of the West against the East | I |
| And though Ivan sees no farther | B |
| Than to night through lurid gloom | N |
| Every hour he holds Port Arthur | B |
| May postpone the White Man s doom | N |
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| Right or wrong whate er in future | B |
| May this blundering world befall | F |
| Human kindness will survive it | I |
| Brothers Skaal to brave men Skaal | F |
Henry Lawson
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