The Rebel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGCCHH IIJJBB KKLLFFMM KKNNCCCall me traitor to my country and a rebel to my God | A |
And the foe of law and order well deserving of the rod | A |
But I scorn the biassed sentence from the temples of the creed | B |
That was fouled and mutilated by the ministers of greed | B |
For the strength that I inherit is the strength of Truth and Right | C |
Lords of earth I am immortal in the battles cf the night | C |
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My religion is the oldest it was born upon the earth | D |
When to curse mankind for ages pride and tyranny had birth | D |
Tis the offspring of oppression born to suffering and strife | E |
Born to hate above all other hate the things that gave it life | E |
And twill live through all the ages while a son of man is blind | F |
In the everlasting rhythm of the story of mankind | F |
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From the Maker s battered image where the bloody helmet gleams | G |
From the graves of beaten armies rise the heroes of my dreams | G |
I am ever with the weaker in the battles for the right | C |
And I fight on vessels sinking neath the cruel blows of might | C |
But I hear of coming triumph in the tramp of flying feet | H |
And the wild despairing music of the army in retreat | H |
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I am plunged in bitter sorrow at the sinking of a star | I |
For I mourn among the murdered where the broken lances are | I |
Souls of earth who rule with iron raining death on farm and town | J |
Sacrificing lives uncounted putting just rebellions down | J |
Ye shall answer for the murders of the slaves compelled to bleed | B |
For the commonwealth of idlers and the common cause of greed | B |
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I have come for common justice to the castles of the great | K |
And the people who have sent me crave assistance at the gate | K |
They obeyed the Maker s sentence whey have ploughed and tilled the soil | L |
Yet they go in rags and hunger in the harvest of their toil | L |
I demand the rights of Labour in the law of God defined | F |
Pause and weigh the pregnant answer where is peace or war behind | F |
Are we slaves beneath the power that our industry hath given | M |
Are we fuel to feed the engines of your artificial heaven | M |
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I am come to warn the idlers at the castles of the great | K |
For the army that has sent me grows impatient at the gate | K |
They have gathered now in thousands from the alley and the den | N |
And the words of fire are breaking from the lips of quiet men | N |
Yield and save the lives of thousands for the rebels eyes are bright | C |
And the god of revolution is abroad on earth to night | C |
Henry Lawson
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