The Dons Of Spain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB FFGB HHGB| The Eagle screams at the beck of trade so Spain as the world goes round | A |
| Must wrestle the right to live or die from the sons of the land she found | A |
| For as in the days when the buccaneer was abroad on the Spanish Main | B |
| The national honour is one thing dear to the hearts of the Dons of Spain | B |
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| She has slaughtered thousands with fire and sword as the Christian world might know | C |
| We murder millions but thank the Lord we only starve 'em slow | C |
| The times have changed since the days of old but the same old facts remain | B |
| We fight for Freedom and God and Gold and the Spaniards fight for Spain | B |
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| We fought with the strength of the moral right and they as their ships went down | D |
| They only fought with the grit to fight and their armour to help 'em drown | D |
| It mattered little what chance or hope for ever their path was plain | B |
| The Church was the Church and the Pope the Pope but the Spaniards fought for Spain | B |
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| If Providence struck for the honest thief at times in the battle's din | E |
| If ever it struck at the hypocrite well that's where the Turks came in | E |
| But this remains ere we leave the wise to argue it through in vain | B |
| There's something great in the wrong that dies as the Spaniards die for Spain | B |
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| The foes of Spain may be kin to us who are English heart and soul | F |
| And proud of our national righteousness and proud of the lands we stole | F |
| But we yet might pause while those brave men die and the death drink pledge again | G |
| For the sake of the past if you're doomed say I may your death be a grand one Spain | B |
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| Then here's to the bravest of Freedom's foes who ever with death have stood | H |
| For the sake of the courage to die on steel as their fathers died on wood | H |
| And here's a cheer for the flag unfurled in a hopeless cause again | G |
| For the sake of the days when the Christian world was saved by the Dons of Spain | B |
Henry Lawson
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