The Recruit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHFH IJCJ KLML DNON CPCP| Leave 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 |
Alfred Edward Housman
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