The Graybacks So Tenderly Clinging Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCD EEEF GGGF| There were companions on the march as every soldier found | A |
| With ceaseless zeal in digging deep in every spot around | A |
| And though each hero killed a lot still thousands more abound | A |
| The graybacks so tenderly clinging | B |
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| CHORUS O ho no no we never can forget | C |
| Ow ow ow ow we almost feel them yet | C |
| The busy little grayback teeth in us so firmly set | C |
| Who went with us Marching Through Georgia | D |
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| The visitors were never big in fact were very small | E |
| In silence they put in their work no sound they made at all | E |
| They thought it was full fun enough to hear the comrades bawl | E |
| While graybacks were busily biting CHORUS | F |
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| And never partial were those bugs no mortal would they spare | G |
| No dignity could keep them off they just bit everywhere | G |
| And generals could not deny but what each had a share | G |
| Of graybacks so constantly nibbling CHORUS | F |
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