Hurrah For The Light Artillery! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDBB EEFF GGBB HHBB IIBB JJBB| On the unstained sward of the gentle slope | A |
| Full of valor and nerved by hope | A |
| The infantry sways like a coming sea | B |
| Why lingers the light artillery | B |
| 'Action front ' | C |
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| Whirling the Parrotts like children's toys | D |
| The horses strain to the rushing noise | D |
| To right and to left so fast and free | B |
| They carry the light artillery | B |
| 'Drive on ' | - |
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| The gunner cries with a tug and a jerk | E |
| The limbers fly and we bend to our work | E |
| The handspike in and the implements out | F |
| We wait for the word and it comes with a shout | F |
| 'Load ' | - |
| - | |
| The foes pour on their billowy line | G |
| Can nothing check their bold design | G |
| With yells and oaths of fiendish glee | B |
| They rush for the light artillery | B |
| 'Commence firing ' | - |
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| Hurrah Hurrah our bulldogs bark | H |
| And the enemy's line is a glorious mark | H |
| Hundreds fall like grain on the lea | B |
| Mowed down by the light artillery | B |
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| 'Fire ' and 'Load ' are the only cries | I |
| Thundered and rolled to the vaulted skies | I |
| Aha they falter they halt they flee | B |
| From the hail of the light artillery | B |
| 'Cease firing ' | - |
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| The battle is over the victory won | J |
| Ere the dew is dried by the rising sun | J |
| While the shout bursts out like a full voiced sea | B |
| 'Hurrah for the light artillery | B |
| 'Hurrah for the light artillery ' | - |
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