The Recruit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHFH IJCJ KLML DNON CPCPLeave your home behind lad | A |
And reach your friends your hand | B |
And go and luck go with you | C |
While Ludlow tower shall stand | B |
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Oh come you home of Sunday | D |
When Ludlow streets are still | E |
And Ludlow bells are calling | F |
To farm and lane and mill | E |
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Or come you home of Monday | G |
When Ludlow market hums | H |
And Ludlow chimes are playing | F |
The conquering hero comes | H |
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Come you home a hero | I |
Or come not home at all | J |
The lads you leave will mind you | C |
Till Ludlow tower shall fall | J |
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And you will list the bugle | K |
That blows in lands of morn | L |
And make the foes of England | M |
Be sorry you were born | L |
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And you till trump of doomsday | D |
On lands of morn may lie | N |
And make the hearts of comrades | O |
Be heavy where you die | N |
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Leave your home behind you | C |
Your friends by field and town | P |
Oh town and field will mind you | C |
Till Ludlow tower is down | P |
A. E. Housman
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