The Vanguard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH DDII| While the crippled cruisers stagger where the blind horizon dips | A |
| And the ocean ooze is rising round the sunken battle ships | A |
| While the battered wrecks unnoticed with their mangled crews drift past | B |
| Let me fire one gun for Russia though that gun should be the last | B |
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| 'Tis a struggle of the Ages and the White Man's star is dim | C |
| There is little jubilation for the game has got too grim | C |
| But though Russia's hope seems shattered and the Russian star seems set | D |
| It may mean the Dawn for Russia and my hope's in IVAN yet | D |
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| Let the Jingo in his blindness cant and cackle as he will | E |
| But across the path from Asia run the Russian trenches still | E |
| And the sahib in his rickshaw may loll back and smoke at ease | F |
| While the haggard ragged heroes man the battered batteries | F |
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| 'Tis the first round of the struggle of the East against the West | G |
| Of the fearful war of races for the White Man could not rest | G |
| Hold them IVAN staggering bravely underneath your gloomy sky | H |
| Hold them IVAN we shall want you pretty badly by and bye | H |
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| Fighting for the Indian empire when the British pay their debt | D |
| Never Britain watched for BLUCHER as he'll watch for IVAN yet | D |
| It means all to young Australia it means life or death to us | I |
| For the vanguard of the White Man is the vanguard of the Russ | I |
Henry Lawson
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