The Labour Agitator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGCHCH FIFIJFJF FGFGCHCH CKCKLJLM FGFGCHCH LNLNANAN FGFGCNCNLET the liar call me liar | A |
And the robber call me thief | B |
They can only fan the fire | A |
That is born of my belief | B |
While I m speaking while I m writing | C |
To reform the wrongful laws | D |
Well I know that I am fighting | C |
For the grand old Cause | E |
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See the army of the rebels | F |
Marching on for evermore | G |
We are countless as the pebbles | F |
That are strewn along the shore | G |
Agitating agitating | C |
Till the Truth has sealed the fate | H |
Of the wrongs that I am hating | C |
With the grand old Hate | H |
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Though no battle banner rustles | F |
In a smoke that blurs the blue | I |
As when heroes poured from Brussels | F |
To the field of Waterloo | I |
Though we do not hear the rattle | J |
Of the rifles in the wars | F |
There is glory in the battle | J |
For the grand old Cause | F |
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See the army of the rebels | F |
Marching on for evermore | G |
We are countless as the pebbles | F |
That are strewn along the shore | G |
Agitating agitating | C |
Till the Truth has sealed the fate | H |
Of the wrongs that I am hating | C |
With the grand old Hate | H |
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No I look not to the reaping | C |
In the dynasty of men | K |
For I know that I ll be sleeping | C |
In a slandered grave e er then | K |
Till his right to man is given | L |
We ll rebel and we ll rebel | J |
As we would rebel in heaven | L |
If it proved a hell | M |
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See the army of the rebels | F |
Marching on for evermore | G |
We are countless as the pebbles | F |
That are strewn along the shore | G |
Agitating agitating | C |
Till the Truth has sealed the fate | H |
Of the wrongs that I am hating | C |
With the grand old Hate | H |
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No There s neither creed nor nation | L |
Where the Labour flag s unfurled | N |
For the Labour agitation | L |
Breaks the barriers of the world | N |
Let the rulers fly in terror | A |
With their scornful lips uncurled | N |
One by one the gods of error | A |
From their thrones are hurled | N |
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See the army of the rebels | F |
Marching on for evermore | G |
We are countless as the pebbles | F |
That are strewn along the shore | G |
Agitating agitating | C |
Till the Truth has sealed the fate | N |
Of the wrongs that I am hating | C |
With the grand old Hate | N |
Henry Lawson
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