What Have We All Forgotten? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFGG HHIIJJ KLFFMM| WHAT have we all forgotten at the break of the seventh year | A |
| With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier | B |
| Public robbing and lying that death cannot erase | C |
| Private strife and deception Cover the bad dead face | C |
| Drinking gambling and madness Cover and bear it away | D |
| But what have we all forgotten at the dawn of the seventh day | D |
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| These are the years of plenty years when the tanks are full | E |
| Stacked by the lonely sidings mountains of wheat and wool | E |
| Country crowds to the city healthy shaven and dressed | F |
| Clothes to wear with the gayest money to spend with the best | F |
| Grand are the lights of the cities carnival kings in power | G |
| But what have we all forgotten in this the eleventh hour | G |
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| We have brought the states together a land to the lands new born | H |
| We have worked in the glorious weather we have garnered and reaped and shorn | H |
| We have come from the grass waves flowing under Heaven s electric lamps | I |
| Making of sordid cities boyish and jovial camps | I |
| We have cleansed the cities and townships we rest and frolic and gain | J |
| But what have we all forgotten Did we send the peace and the rain | J |
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| What have we all forgotten here in our glorious home | K |
| I the greater the sinner because I was greater than some | L |
| What have we all forgotten so widely from east to west | F |
| I and the most ungrateful because I was doubly blessed | F |
| Sinners to self and to country and saviours though misunderstood | M |
| Let us all kneel for one moment and thank the Great Spirits for Good | M |
Henry Lawson
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