The Federal City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDDD DDDD EEFF DDFF GGHH| OH the folly the waste and the pity Oh the time that is flung behind | A |
| They are seeking a site for a city whose eyes shall be always blind | A |
| Whose love for their ease grows greater and whose care for their country less | B |
| They are seeking a site for a city a City of Selfishness | C |
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| In ignorance deafness blindness in the cities by the sea | D |
| With waste of time and of money and with local jealousy | D |
| With Anti Federal envy and personal paltriness | D |
| They are seeking a site for a city while Australia moans in distress | D |
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| By the coast with the people crowding where Australia s danger lies | D |
| By the hills and the clear cool rivers and under the softer skies | D |
| Where the fat shall not melt and the ranter grow cool in the fresh ning breeze | D |
| And the dwellers drivel in comfort and the boodlers swindle at ease | D |
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| They are seeking a site for a city in the beauty spots of the land | E |
| While I see so plainly my children where the Federal towers should stand | E |
| Where the heart of Australia beats strongest and highest in desert air | F |
| Make a site for a Federal City and build you your capital there | F |
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| Where the crowd should be drawn from the coast line to the great bush that cradled the race | D |
| Where the bush might be armed and directed should the seaboard be lost for a space | D |
| Where the waste should be watered and gardened in the drought land of Never Despair | F |
| There build you your Federal City and make you a paradise there | F |
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| It shall be a world wide object lesson it shall stand while a bushman is true | G |
| And I tell you the bushmen will build it to show what a nation can do | G |
| And there shall Australia sit queenly and there shall her children be schooled | H |
| For I say from the heart of Australia shall the whole of Australia be ruled | H |
Henry Lawson
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