The Drums Of Ages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFGGEE HHIIEE JJKKEE LLMNEE AABB| Drums of all that s right and wrong of love and hate and scorn | A |
| And the new born baby hears them and it wails when it is born | A |
| Drums of all that is to be and all that has gone by | B |
| And we hear them when we re dreaming and we hear them while we die | B |
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| Drums of martyred innocence and drums of driven guilt | C |
| Beating backward from the future when the first rude town was built | C |
| Beating louder through the slave days and the dark and hungry nights | D |
| While the hovels filled the valleys and the castles crowned the heights | D |
| Beating louder while the mansions shifted east from miles of slums | E |
| Don t you hear them Don t you hear them Don t you hear the alley drums | E |
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| Drums of human sacrifice and drums of war at home | F |
| While the Romans conquered nations they were beating loud in Rome | F |
| Children heard them through the ages mothers paused and glanced behind | G |
| Madmen saw and heard the drummers but the rest were deaf and blind | G |
| Peasants starved on fields of plenty workmen rotted in the slums | E |
| Till the drummers came to Paris and the nations heard the drums | E |
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| Drums of hope and bursting hearts the drums of Westward Ho | H |
| From the homes of generations and their native land they go | H |
| Groom and bride and grey haired mother bent old men who go alone | I |
| Fleeing bitter persecution for the terrible unknown | I |
| Seeking freedom rest or justice and the peace that never comes | E |
| And the wilderness was conquered when the pilgrims beat their drums | E |
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| Drums of Greed that followed fast where men had made the way | J |
| Waking drums of stern rebellion when the exiles turned at bay | J |
| Spreading death and desolation breeding old world hells anew | K |
| Until England lost a nation for the blindness of a few | K |
| Still the dirty Jewish talon reached from palaces and slums | E |
| Till a hundred thousand English died to stop the farmers drums | E |
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| Drums of tortured hearts o men the drums that never ceased | L |
| Throbbing through the British Empire from the heart of London East | L |
| Growling louder still wherever in the wake of those who lead | M |
| Comes the murmur of the board room and the stealthy steps of greed | N |
| Growling through the Southern cities murmuring in the Western gums | E |
| Till the Empire falls to pieces at the beating of the drums | E |
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| Drums of all that s right and wrong of love and hate and scorn | A |
| And the new born baby hears them and he wails when he is born | A |
| Drums of all that is to be and all that has gone by | B |
| And we hear there when we re dreaming and we hear then while we die | B |
Henry Lawson
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