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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 afternoonsA
In a certain nameless city's quaint old squareB
It can rouse the blood to battle with its patriotic tunesA
And still render hymns as gentle as a prayerB
When it starts 'Ave Maria' there is no one in the throngC
But would doff his cap his heart to heaven raiseD
And who would shrink from combat when with brasses sounding strongC
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 dayE
At the battle of the Marne one sees againF
The grey green hosts of Hundom melt before the stern arrayE
Of our gallant sister ally's blue clad menF
And when it plays our Anthem with rendition bold and clearG
While the khaki lads stand steady then we feelH
That though tongues and ways may vary we've found brothers over hereI
Tried in war and in allegiance true as steelH
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For it's olive drab horizon blue packed closely side by sideJ
Till their colors set ablaze the grey old squareB
And it's olive drab horizon blue whatever may betideJ
That will blaze the way to victory 'up there '-
So while standing thus together let us pledge anew our trothK
To the Cause the world set free for which we fightL
As the evening twilight gilds the ranks of blue and khaki bothK
And the the bugles die away into the nightL

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