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Craven-Heart

Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)

Those anguished voices in the air!
Oh, I could shriek and tear my hair
In rage, rebellion and despair.

But what is one, amid a throng
So vast and merciless and strong,
To make attempt to right the wrong?

What ear would hear me if I cried?
And who would rally to my side?
What could I do to stem the tide?

Though I should plunge in flood and flame,
And suffer every shame and blame,
The world would triumph all the same.

I am not called upon to pay.
So why join in the hopeless fray,
And waste my brief and precious day?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 513
Words 106
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
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Ada Cambridge

Ada Cambridge, later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works. Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers but never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, her newspaper readers knew her as A. C.. She later reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and that is how she is known today.  more…

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