When The French Band Plays Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JBJ KLKL| THERE'S a military band that plays on Sunday afternoons | A |
| In a certain nameless city's quaint old square | B |
| It can rouse the blood to battle with its patriotic tunes | A |
| And still render hymns as gentle as a prayer | B |
| When it starts 'Ave Maria' there is no one in the throng | C |
| But would doff his cap his heart to heaven raise | D |
| And who would shrink from combat when with brasses sounding strong | C |
| There is flung out on the breeze 'La Marseillaise' | D |
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| When it starts to render 'Sambre et Meuse ' the march that won the day | E |
| At the battle of the Marne one sees again | F |
| The grey green hosts of Hundom melt before the stern array | E |
| Of our gallant sister ally's blue clad men | F |
| And when it plays our Anthem with rendition bold and clear | G |
| While the khaki lads stand steady then we feel | H |
| That though tongues and ways may vary we've found brothers over here | I |
| Tried in war and in allegiance true as steel | H |
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| For it's olive drab horizon blue packed closely side by side | J |
| Till their colors set ablaze the grey old square | B |
| And it's olive drab horizon blue whatever may betide | J |
| That will blaze the way to victory 'up there ' | - |
| So while standing thus together let us pledge anew our troth | K |
| To the Cause the world set free for which we fight | L |
| As the evening twilight gilds the ranks of blue and khaki both | K |
| And the the bugles die away into the night | L |
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