The Soul Of The Anzac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFFGHGHIIJK JKLLMNMNDDBOBOPPQRQR SSTUTUVVWXWXYYZGZGA2 A2EB2EB2C2C2| THE form that was mine was brown and hard | A |
| And thewed and muscled and tall and straight | B |
| And often it rode from the station yard | A |
| And often it passed through the stockyard gate | B |
| And often it paused on the grey skyline | C |
| 'Twixt mulga and mallee or gum and pine | C |
| There was never a task that it would not do | D |
| There was never a labour it left undone | E |
| But ever and always it battled through | D |
| And took the rest that its toil had won | E |
| And slept the sleep of the weary limbed | F |
| Till the stars grew pale and the planets dimmed | F |
| The form that was mine is mine no more | G |
| For low it lies in a soldier's grave | H |
| By an alien sea on an alien shore | G |
| And over its sleep no wattles wave | H |
| And stars unseen on their journey creep | I |
| But it wakes no more from its dreamless sleep | I |
| O Mother of mine what is is best | J |
| And our graves are dug at the hour of birth | K |
| And the form that slept on your shielding breast | J |
| Sleeps soundly here in the mothering earth | K |
| And dust to dust When our part is played | L |
| Does it matter much where the change is made | L |
| O Heart that was mine you were brave and strong | M |
| How strong how brave let another tell | N |
| You loved the lilt of the bushman's song | M |
| And loved the land that he loved so well | N |
| And loved ah well as well she knew | D |
| The sweet white girl who was all to you | D |
| O Heart of mine though your love was great | B |
| Yet a greater than Love is lord of man | O |
| The rose path wound to the garden gate | B |
| And there the track to The Peaks began | O |
| And though storm threatened and skies grew black | P |
| You dared the menace and took the track | P |
| O Heart when the cliffs were hard to climb | Q |
| How sweet was home and her eyes how sweet | R |
| How sweet the moments when Love kept time | Q |
| And you and her heart gave beat for beat | R |
| And the waters sang and the sun rays glanced | S |
| And the flowers laughed out and the saplings danced | S |
| Yet better O Heart to do as you did | T |
| Than to lie on her breast as your love gift lies | U |
| For how can Love prosper when Honour lies hid | T |
| Ashamed to look Love fair and square in the eyes | U |
| Though grave mould be round you grey grasses above | V |
| You live and shall live evermore in her love | V |
| O Man that I was you were foe to Death | W |
| For Life was fair to you wonderful rare | X |
| You had your being and drew your breath | W |
| In ample spaces of earth and air | X |
| While ever and always by night and day | Y |
| Bright Promise pointed the Golden Way | Y |
| And yet 'twas your choice to be this thing | Z |
| A young man dead on an alien shore | G |
| Where the immemorial surges sing | Z |
| As once they sang in the days of yore | G |
| When Greek and Trojan matched their might | A2 |
| And Troy shone down upon the fight | A2 |
| O Man that I was well done Well done | E |
| You chose the nobler the better part | B2 |
| Though a mother weep for her soldier son | E |
| And a fair sweet girl be sad at heart | B2 |
| Yet the soul of your country glows with pride | C2 |
| At the deed you did and the death you died | C2 |
Roderic Quinn
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