Ten Paces Off Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBDDDEFGFDHDHIJIK DALALAMAMAFAFDDDD| An open country | A |
| LAURENCE RABY and FORREST BRIAN AYLMER and PRESCOT | B |
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| Forrest | C |
| I've won the two tosses from Prescot | B |
| Now hear me and hearken and heed | D |
| And pull that vile flower from your waistcoat | D |
| And throw down that beast of a weed | D |
| I'm going to give you the signal | E |
| I gave Harry Hunt at Boulogne | F |
| The morning he met Major Bignell | G |
| And shot him as dead as a stone | F |
| For he must look round on his right hand | D |
| To watch the white flutter that stops | H |
| His aim for it takes off his sight and | D |
| I cough while the handkerchief drops | H |
| And you keep both eyes on his figure | I |
| Old fellow and don't take them off | J |
| You've got the sawhandled hair trigger | I |
| You sight him and shoot when I cough | K |
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| Laurence aside | D |
| Though God will never forgive me | A |
| Though men make light of my name | L |
| Though my sin and my shame outlive me | A |
| I shall not outlast my shame | L |
| The coward does he mean to miss me | A |
| His right hand shakes like a leaf | M |
| Shall I live for my friends to hiss me | A |
| Of fools and of knaves the chief | M |
| Shall I live for my foes to twit me | A |
| He has master'd his nerve again | F |
| He is firm he will surely hit me | A |
| Will he reach the heart or the brain | F |
| One long look eastward and northward | D |
| One prayer Our Father which art | D |
| And the cough chimes in with the fourth word | D |
| And I shoot skyward the heart | D |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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