Stanzas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEDFE GHGHHIHII JKLKKM NN| Up go the beautiful and world watch'd stars | A |
| Lifting the glory of America | B |
| 'Mong the red flags which gleam through masts | C |
| and spars | C |
| Crowded in gay magnificence to day | D |
| Where three score years ago none found their way | D |
| Of all the ships which left old England's shore | E |
| Up goes the starry flag on waves which lay | D |
| In undiscover'd solitude when o'er | F |
| America those stars first glanc'd from fields of gore | E |
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| In friendly beauty floats that free fix'd flag | G |
| 'Gainst England's glowing ensign I could dream | H |
| Of times when the wild bush each uncouth crag | G |
| And precipice beside this haven stream | H |
| Shall yield to one vast city and the gleam | H |
| Of new born banners shall illumine it | I |
| And these alike be foreign in the beam | H |
| Of Australasia's morning Heaven admit | I |
| One patriot spirit here and Freedom's fires are lit | I |
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| Not ever shall the exile's toil be all | J |
| To bring the harvest of this infant land | K |
| The children of the buried exile shall | L |
| Behold a mother's beauty in the bland | K |
| Aspect of Nature on their native strand | K |
| And Freedom then shall choose a dwelling here | M |
| Oh Happy epoch when the 'great and grand ' | - |
| The memory of whose deeds mankind revere | N |
| Number a Washington from the world's Austral sphere | N |
Sir Henry Parkes
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