The Song Of Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM| The centuries found me to nations unknown | A |
| My people have crowned me and made me a throne | A |
| My royal regalia is love truth and light | B |
| A girl called Australia I've come to my right | B |
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| Though no fields of conquest grew red at my birth | C |
| My dead were the noblest and bravest on earth | C |
| Their strong sons are worthy to stand with the best | D |
| My brave Overlanders ride west of the west | D |
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| My cities are seeking the clean and the right | B |
| My Statesmen are speaking in London to night | B |
| The voice of my Bushmen is heard oversea | E |
| My army and navy are coming to me | E |
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| By all my grim headlands my flag is unfurled | F |
| My artists and singers are charming the world | F |
| The White world shall know its young outpost with pride | G |
| The fame of my poets goes ever more wide | G |
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| By old tow'r and steeple of nation grown grey | H |
| The name of my people is spreading to day | H |
| Through all the old nations my learners go forth | I |
| My youthful inventors are startling the north | I |
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| In spite of all Asia and safe from her yet | J |
| Through wide Australasia my standards I'll set | J |
| A grand world and bright world to rise in an hour | K |
| The Wings of the White world the Balance of Power | K |
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| Through storm or serenely whate'er I go through | L |
| God grant I be queenly God grant I be true | L |
| To suffer in silence and strike at a sign | M |
| Till all the fair islands of these seas are mine | M |
Henry Lawson
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