The Distant Drum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB AAAC DDDE FFFE GHHI AAAJ| Republicans the time is coming | A |
| Listen to the distant drumming | A |
| Hearken to the whispers humming | A |
| In the troubled atmosphere | B |
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| Ye are born to do the toiling | A |
| On and on and no recoiling | A |
| To the fighting to the foiling | A |
| Of the wrongs that wrong us here | C |
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| Let the Loyal laugh and jeer you | D |
| Let them in derision cheer you | D |
| Still the cowards show they fear you | D |
| By their deeds and all they say | E |
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| Let Britannia rule for ever | F |
| O er the wave but never never | F |
| Rule a land great oceans sever | F |
| Fifteen thousand miles away | E |
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| Stained by persecution s fires | G |
| Thinned of homes and thick with spires | H |
| They love the land that bred their sires | H |
| Ye the Land that breeds your sons | I |
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| And your sons shall have the reaping | A |
| And your sons shall have the keeping | A |
| Of your honour while you re sleeping | A |
| Freedom s vanguard in your graves | J |
Henry Lawson
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