The King Of Our Republic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDBB EEBB FFBB GGBB| He is coming He is coming without heralds without cheers | A |
| He is coming He is coming and he s been with us for years | A |
| And if you should pause to wonder who s the man of whom I sing | B |
| Tis the King of our Republic and the man we shall call King | B |
| No he comes not to amuse us and he comes not to explain | C |
| With the bathos of the old things over all the land again | D |
| The debatable and tangled and the vain imagining | B |
| Shall be swept out of our pathway by the man that we ll call King | B |
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| He is coming He is coming He has heard our spirit call | E |
| He ll be greatest man since Cromwell in the English nations all | E |
| And he ll take his place amongst us while the rest are wondering | B |
| Shall the King of our Republic and the man we will call King | B |
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| If you find him stern unyielding where his living task is set | F |
| I have told you that a tyrant shall uplift the nation yet | F |
| He will place his country s welfare over all and everything | B |
| Shall the King of our Republic and the man that we ll call King | B |
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| Yet his heart shall still be gentle with his brothers gone astray | G |
| For the Great Man of Australia shall be simple in his day | G |
| Modest kindly but unyielding while the watching world shall ring | B |
| With the name of our Republic and the man that we call King | B |
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