The Australian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A B C D C D E F E F G G G G G H G I G G G G J K J K L G L G| The skies that arched his land were blue | A |
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| His bush born winds were warm and sweet | B |
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| And yet from earliest hours he knew | A |
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| The tides of victory and defeat | B |
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| From fierce floods thundering at his birth | C |
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| From red droughts ravening while he played | D |
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| He learned to fear no foes on earth | C |
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| The bravest thing God ever made | D |
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| The bugles of the motherland | E |
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| Rang ceaselessly across the sea | F |
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| To call him and his lean brown band | E |
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| To shape imperial destiny | F |
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| He went by youth s grave purpose willed | G |
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| The goal unknown the cost unweighed | G |
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| The promise of his blood fulfilled | G |
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| The bravest thing God ever made | G |
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| We know it is our deathless pride | G |
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| The splendour of his first fierce blows | H |
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| How reckless glorious undenied | G |
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| He stormed those steel lined cliffs we know | I |
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| And none who saw him scale the height | G |
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| Behind his reeking bayonet blade | G |
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| Would rob him of his title right | G |
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| The bravest thing God ever made | G |
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| Bravest where half the world of men | J |
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| Are brave beyond all earth s rewards | K |
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| So stoutly none shall charge again | J |
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| Till the last breaking of the swords | K |
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| Wounded or hale won home from the war | L |
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| Or yonder by the Lone Pine laid | G |
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| Give him his due forever more | L |
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| The bravest thing God ever made | G |
William Henry Ogilvie
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