The Little Czar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ CCKK| Oh Great White Czar of Russia who hid your face and ran | A |
| You ve flung afar the grandest chance that ever came to man | A |
| You might have been and could have been ah think it to your shame | B |
| The Czar of all the Russias in fact as well as name | B |
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| The Father of your People your children called to you | C |
| To do the things to save them which only you could do | C |
| Your soldiers whipped their faces the trodden snow is red | D |
| With the blood of men and women and the blood is on your head | D |
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| I saw in dreams a monarch of his power all unaware | E |
| Step down amongst his people from off his palace stair | E |
| The Grand Dukes shrank and trembled the traitors fled afar | F |
| Through all the mighty Russias rang the order of the Czar | F |
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| You might have journeyed freely wherever path is made | G |
| Through all your vast dominions alone and unafraid | G |
| And in the eyes of subjects the cultured and the rude | H |
| Have seen instead of hatred the tears of gratitude | H |
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| Oh little Czar of Russia a weak man and a fool | I |
| At the mercy of your nobles their prisoner and their tool | I |
| Your freedom and your people s and their love was to be won | J |
| Ah me it would have been a deed a coward might have done | J |
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| Yet we who know so little might say one word for you | C |
| How many in our weakness have lost our kingdoms too | C |
| And facing death and exile when all the world seemed black | K |
| How many in our after strength have won our kingdoms back | K |
Henry Lawson
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