Song Of The Dardanelles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBAABBBBB CCBBBBB DDEBBBB FFBBBBB GGBBBBB AAEBBBB| The Wireless tells and the cable tells | A |
| How our boys behaved by the Dardanelles | A |
| Some thought in their hearts Will our boys make good | B |
| We knew them of old and we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| We were mates of old and we knew they would | B |
| They laughed and they larked and they loved likewise | A |
| For blood is warm under Southern skies | A |
| They knew not Pharoah tis understood | B |
| And they got into scrapes as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| And they got into scrapes as we knew they would | B |
| - | |
| They chafed in the dust of an old dead land | C |
| At the long months drill in the scorching sand | C |
| But they knew in their hearts it was for their good | B |
| And they saw it through as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| And they saw it through as we knew they would | B |
| - | |
| The Coo ee called through the Mena Camp | D |
| And an army roared like the Ocean s tramp | D |
| On a gale swept beach in her wildest mood | E |
| Till the Pyramids shook as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| And the Sphinx woke up as we knew she would | B |
| - | |
| They were shipped like sheep when the dawn was grey | F |
| But their officers knew that no lambs were they | F |
| They squatted and perched where er they could | B |
| And they blanky ed for joy as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| They blanky ed for joy as we knew they would | B |
| - | |
| The sea was hell and the shore was hell | G |
| With mine entanglement shrapnel and shell | G |
| But they stormed the heights as Australians should | B |
| And they fought and they died as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| They fought and they died as we knew they would | B |
| - | |
| From the southern hills and the city lanes | A |
| From the sandwaste lone and the Blacksoil Plains | A |
| The youngest and strongest of England s brood | E |
| They ll win for the South as we knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| Knew they would | B |
| They ll win for the South as we knew they would | B |
Henry Lawson
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