Waratah And Wattle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEEF GHGHCDCCD| Though poor and in trouble I wander alone | A |
| With rebel cockade in my hat | B |
| Though friends may desert me and kindred disown | A |
| My country will never do that | B |
| You may sing of the Shamrock the Thistle the rose | C |
| Or the three in a bunch if you will | D |
| But I know of a country that gathered all those | C |
| And I love the great land where the Waratah grows | C |
| And the Wattle bough blooms on the hill | D |
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| Australia Australia so fair to behold | E |
| While the blue sky is arching above | F |
| The stranger should never have need to be told | E |
| That the Wattle bloom means that her heart is of gold | E |
| And the Waratah's red with her love | F |
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| Australia Australia most beautiful name | G |
| Most kindly and bountiful land | H |
| I would die every death that might save her from shame | G |
| If a black cloud should rise on the stand | H |
| But whatever the quarrel whoever her foes | C |
| Let them come Let them come when they will | D |
| Though the struggle be grim 'tis Australia that knows | C |
| That her children shall fight while the Waratah grows | C |
| And the Wattle blooms out on the hill | D |
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