Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFAF GGBBB HIJJJ| The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride | A |
| The city bands before them the soldiers marched beside | A |
| Oh starched white frocks and sashes and suits that high schools wear | B |
| The boy scout and the boy lout and all the rest were there | B |
| And all flags save Australia's flag waved high in sun and air | B |
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| The Girls' High School and Grammar School and colleges of stone | C |
| Flew all flags from their walls and towers all flags except our own | C |
| And down here in the alleys where Premiers never come | D |
| Nor candidate nor delegate nor sound of fife and drum | D |
| They packed them on the lorries seared children of the slum | D |
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| Each face seemed soiled and faded though scrubbed with household soap | E |
| And older than a mother face but with less sign of hope | E |
| The knowledge of things evil of drunken wreck and hag | F |
| Of sordid sounds and voices the everlasting quot nag quot | A |
| Oh men without a battle song Oh men without a flag | F |
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| They breed a nation's strength behind each shabby little door | G |
| Where rent collectors knock for aye and Christ shall knock no more | G |
| The sounds that hurt the mother's heart affright the children there | B |
| Alarm clocks on an empty tin the tin tray on a chair | B |
| For weary folk are hard to wake in hot and heavy air | B |
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| They sang in Pride's Procession that Mammon might endure | H |
| Oh wistful singing faces the children of the poor | I |
| Oh hideous fiends of commerce Oh ghouls of business strife | J |
| I wait the coming of the things to wake the land to life | J |
| The flag without a cross or bar the drum without a fife | J |
Henry Lawson
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