The Army Of The Rear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDBEEBBCBB AABBCBB FFBBCBB GGBBCBB HHBBCBB BBBBCBB IIBBCBB| I listened through the music and the sounds of revelry | A |
| And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee | A |
| I heard beyond the music and beyond the local cheer | B |
| The steady tramp of thousands that were marching in the rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| They seem to shake the air | D |
| Those never ceasing footsteps of the outcasts in the rear | B |
| I heard defiance ringing from the men of rags and dirt | E |
| I heard wan woman singing that sad Song of the Shirt | E |
| And o er the sounds of menace and moaning low and drear | B |
| I heard the steady tramping of their feet along the rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| Vibrating in the air | B |
| They re swelling fast those footsteps of the Army of the Rear | B |
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| I hate the wrongs I read about I hate the wrongs I see | A |
| The tramping of that army sounds as music unto me | A |
| A music that is terrible that frights the anxious ear | B |
| Is beaten from the weary feet that tramp along the rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| In dogged grim despair | B |
| They have a goal those footsteps of the Army of the Rear | B |
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| I looked upon the nobles with their lineage so old | F |
| I looked upon their mansions on their acres and their gold | F |
| I saw their women radiant in jewelled robes appear | B |
| And then I joined the army of the outcasts in the rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| We ll show what Want can dare | B |
| My brothers and my sisters of the Army of the Rear | B |
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| I looked upon the mass of poor in filthy alleys pent | G |
| And on rich men s Edens that are built on grinding rent | G |
| I looked o er London s miles of slums I saw the horrors there | B |
| And swore to die a soldier of the Army of the Rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| I ve sworn to do and dare | B |
| I ve sworn to die a soldier of the Army of the Rear | B |
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| They re brutes so say the wealthy and by steel must be dismayed | H |
| Be brutes among us nobles they are brutes that ye have made | H |
| We want what God hath given us we want our portion here | B |
| And that is why we re marching and we ll march beyond the rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| Awake and have a care | B |
| Ye proud and haughty spurners of the wretches in the rear | B |
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| We ll nurse our wrongs to strengthen us our hate that it may grow | B |
| For outcast from society society s our foe | B |
| Beware who grind out human flesh for human life is dear | B |
| There s menace in the marching of the Army of the Rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| There s danger in despair | B |
| There s danger in the marching of the Army of the Rear | B |
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| The wealthy care not for our wants nor for the pangs we feel | I |
| Our hands have clutched in vain for bread and now they clutch for steel | I |
| Come men of rags and hunger come There s work for heroes here | B |
| There s room still in the vanguard of the Army of the Rear | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp | C |
| O men of want and care | B |
| There s glory in the vanguard of the Army of the Rear | B |
Henry Lawson
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