Ode - Melbourne Shrine Of Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHIH JKJJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STUSUT| So long as memory valour and faith endure | A |
| Let these stones witness through the years to come | B |
| How once there was a people fenced secure | A |
| Behind great waters girdling a far home | C |
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| Their own and their land's youth ran side by side | D |
| Heedless and headlong as their unyoked seas | E |
| Lavish o'er all and set in stubborn pride | D |
| Of judgment nurtured by accepted peace | F |
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| Thus suddenly war took them seas and skies | G |
| Joined with the earth for slaughter In a breath | H |
| They scoffing at all talk of sacrifice | I |
| Gave themselves without idle words to death | H |
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| Thronging as cities throng to watch a game | J |
| Or their own herds move southward with the year | K |
| Secretly swiftly from their ports they came | J |
| So that before half earth had heard their name | J |
| Half earth had learned to speak of them with fear | K |
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| Because of certain men who strove to reach | L |
| Through the red surf the crest no man might hold | M |
| And gave their name for ever to a beach | L |
| Which shall outlive Troy's tale when Time is old | M |
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| Because of horsemen gathered apart and hid | N |
| Merciless riders whom Megiddo sent forth | O |
| When the outflanking hour struck and bid | N |
| Them close and bar the drove roads to the north | O |
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| And those who when men feared the last March flood | P |
| Of Western war had risen beyond recall | Q |
| Stormed through the night from Amiens and made good | R |
| At their glad cost the breach that perilled all | Q |
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| Then they returned to their desired land | S |
| The kindly cities and plains where they were bred | T |
| Having revealed their nation in earth's sight | U |
| So long as sacrifice and honour stand | S |
| And their own sun at the hushed hour shall light | U |
| The shrine of these their dead | T |
Rudyard Kipling
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