Spread The Truth! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF| BRAVE the anger of the wealthy Scorn their bitter lying spite | A |
| Tell the Truth in simple language when you know that you are right | A |
| And they ll read it by the slush lamps in the station huts at night | A |
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| I have seen the People s triumph in the visions of my dreams | B |
| It as pictured by the campfires down the lonely western streams | B |
| And the teamsters talk about it as they tramp beside their teams | B |
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| Write the Truth in simple language and you shall not write in vain | C |
| Sing a ringing song of freedom and you ll hear the same refrain | C |
| Where the drovers ride together far across the western plain | C |
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| Write of wrongs that you are hating with the grand old burning hate | D |
| For the lonely digger reads it when the western day is late | D |
| And he marks it in the paper he is sending to his mate | D |
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| Spread the Truth in simple language when you feel it in your breast | E |
| It will reach the far selections in the wild Australian west | E |
| Where the bushmen yarn together on a sunny day of rest | E |
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| O the workers new religion spreads beneath the southern skies | F |
| And the bearded fathers read it for its words are kind and wise | F |
| And the little children listen to the Truth with wondering eyes | F |
Henry Lawson
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