The Australian Marseillaise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGH IAIAJAKA ADADLMLM LNLNODOD DDDDPOPO LQLQDODO DDDDLRLR| Sing the strong proud song of Labour | A |
| Toss the ringing music high | B |
| Liberty s a nearer neighbour | A |
| Than she was in days gone by | B |
| Workmen s weary wives and daughters | C |
| Sing the songs of liberty | D |
| Men hail men across the waters | C |
| Men reply across the sea | D |
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| We are marching on and onward | E |
| To the silver streak of dawn | F |
| To the dynasty of mankind | G |
| We are marching on | H |
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| Long the rich have been protected | I |
| By the walls that can t endure | A |
| By the walls that they erected | I |
| To divide them from the poor | A |
| Crumbling now they should not trust them | J |
| For their end is drawing near | A |
| Walls of Cant and walls of Custom | K |
| Walls of Ignorance and Fear | A |
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| Tyrants grip your weapons firmer | A |
| Grip them firmly by the helves | D |
| For the poor begin to murmur | A |
| Loudly now among themselves | D |
| Hear us dare to say that Heaven | L |
| Gave us equal rights with you | M |
| Dare to say the world was given | L |
| Unto all and not the few | M |
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| Tell us that the law has risen | L |
| Make us bend beneath its sway | N |
| Throw our leaders into prison | L |
| Wrong us in the light of day | N |
| Drive us to our dens forgetting | O |
| All our woe as greed forgets | D |
| While our weapons we are whetting | O |
| On your levelled bayonets | D |
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| Treat us like the beasts you d make us | D |
| Pen us close in wretched sties | D |
| Til our patience shall forsake us | D |
| And like wolves we will arise | D |
| Louder still for this shall rattle | P |
| Rifle shots and sword blades ring | O |
| On the blood wet fields of battle | P |
| In the days of reckoning | O |
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| We shall rise to prove us human | L |
| Worthy of a human life | Q |
| When our starved and maddened women | L |
| Lead our armies on to strife | Q |
| When our war hymns wake the valleys | D |
| And the rushing missiles shriek | O |
| From your barricaded alleys | D |
| Til your cannon cease to speak | O |
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| Then when Mammon Castle crashes | D |
| To the earth and trampled lies | D |
| Then from out the blood and ashes | D |
| True Republics shall arise | D |
| Then the world shall rest a season | L |
| First since first the world began | R |
| In the reign of right and reason | L |
| And the dynasty of man | R |
Henry Lawson
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