From A Full Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEFF GCGC HIH IIJJ KCKCCLCL MMNN OOHHPPPP| In days of peace my fellow men | A |
| Rightly regarded me as more like | B |
| A Bishop than a Major Gen | A |
| And nothing since has made me warlike | B |
| But when this agelong struggle ends | C |
| And I have seen the Allies dish up | D |
| The goose of Hindenburg oh friends | C |
| I shall out bish the mildest Bishop | D |
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| When the War is over and the Kaiser's out of print | E |
| I'm going to buy some tortoises and watch the beggars sprint | E |
| When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe | F |
| I'm going to keep a jelly fish and listen to it breathe | F |
| - | |
| I never really longed for gore | G |
| And any taste for red corpuscles | C |
| That lingered with me left before | G |
| The German troops had entered Brussels | C |
| In early days the Colonel's 'Shun ' | - |
| Froze me and as the War grew older | H |
| The noise of someone else's gun | I |
| Left me considerably colder | H |
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| When the War is over and the battle has been won | I |
| I'm going to buy a barnacle and take it for a run | I |
| When the War is over and the German Fleet we sink | J |
| I'm going to keep a silk worm's egg and listen to it think | J |
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| The Captains and the Kings depart | K |
| It may be so but not lieutenants | C |
| Dawn after weary dawn I start | K |
| The never ending round of penance | C |
| One rock amid the welter stands | C |
| On which my gaze is fixed intently | L |
| An after life in quiet hands | C |
| Lived very lazily and gently | L |
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| When the War is over and we've done the Belgians proud | M |
| I'm going to keep a chrysalis and read to it aloud | M |
| When the War is over and we've finished up the show | N |
| I'm going to plant a lemon pip and listen to it grow | N |
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| Oh I'm tired of the noise and the turmoil of battle | O |
| And I'm even upset by the lowing of cattle | O |
| And the clang of' the bluebells is death to my liver | H |
| And the roar of the dandelion gives me a shiver | H |
| And a glacier in movement is much too exciting | P |
| And I'm nervous when standing on one of alighting | P |
| Give me Peace that is all that is all that I seek | P |
| Say starting on Saturday week | P |
Alan Alexander Milne
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