The Barefooted Boys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEFG A HIHIEJKJG A LMLMKGGGG N NGGGNFGFG| I | A |
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| By the sword of St Michael | B |
| The old dragon through | C |
| By David his sling | D |
| And the giant he slew | C |
| Let us write us a rhyme | E |
| As a record to tell | F |
| How the South on a time | E |
| Stormed the ramparts of Hell | F |
| With her barefooted boys | G |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Had the South in her border | H |
| A hero to spare | I |
| Or a heart at her altar | H |
| Lo its life's blood was there | I |
| And the black battle grime | E |
| Might never disguise | J |
| The smile of the South | K |
| On the lips and the eyes | J |
| Of her barefooted boys | G |
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| III | A |
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| There's a grandeur in fight | L |
| And a terror the while | M |
| But none like the light | L |
| Of that terrible smile | M |
| The smile of the South | K |
| When the storm cloud unrolls | G |
| The lightening that loosens | G |
| The wrath in the souls | G |
| Of her barefooted boys | G |
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| IV | N |
| - | |
| It withered the foe | N |
| Like the red light that runs | G |
| Through the dead forest leaves | G |
| And he fled from his guns | G |
| Grew the smile to a laugh | N |
| Rose the laugh to a yell | F |
| As the iron clad hoofs | G |
| Clattered back into Hell | F |
| From our barefooted boys | G |
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