Vi: Lancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FBFB AAB FGFG FBFB AAB| I 'listed at home for a lancer | A |
| Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
| I 'listed at home for a lancer | A |
| To ride on a horse to my grave | B |
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| And over the seas we were bidden | C |
| A country to take and to keep | D |
| And far with the brave I have ridden | E |
| And now with the brave I shall sleep | D |
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| For round me the men will be lying | F |
| That learned me the way to behave | B |
| And showed me my business of dying | F |
| Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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| They ask and there is not an answer | A |
| Says I I will 'list for a lancer | A |
| Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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| And I with the brave shall be sleeping | F |
| At ease on my mattress of loam | G |
| When back from their taking and keeping | F |
| The squadron is riding at home | G |
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| The wind with the plumes will be playing | F |
| The girls will stand watching them wave | B |
| And eyeing my comrades and saying | F |
| Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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| They ask and there is not an answer | A |
| Says you I will 'list for a lancer | A |
| Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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