The Storming Party Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDE FFDGHII AAHJDDDJ DDDDKDDD LLLMDDDM DDNONNN DDDDDDP DDDQLLLQ DDD DDRST| Said Paul Leroy to Barrow | A |
| 'Though the breach is steep and narrow | A |
| If we only gain the summit | B |
| Then it's odds we hold the fort | C |
| I have ten and you have twenty | D |
| And the thirty should be plenty | D |
| With Henderson and Henty | D |
| And McDermott in support ' | E |
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| Said Barrow to Leroy | F |
| 'It's a solid job my boy | F |
| For they've flanked it and they've banked it | D |
| And they've bored it with a mine | G |
| But it's only fifty paces | H |
| Ere we look them in the faces | I |
| And the men are in their places | I |
| With their toes upon the line ' | - |
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| Said Paul Leroy to Barrow | A |
| 'See that first ray like an arrow | A |
| How it tinges all the fringes | H |
| Of the sullen drifting skies | J |
| They told me to begin it | D |
| At five thirty to the minute | D |
| And at thirty one I'm in it | D |
| Or my sub will get his rise | J |
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| 'So we'll wait the signal rocket | D |
| Till Barrow show that locket | D |
| That turquoise studded locket | D |
| Which you slipped from out your pocket | D |
| And are pressing with a kiss | K |
| Turquoise studded spiral twisted | D |
| It is hers And I had missed it | D |
| From her chain and you have kissed it | D |
| Barrow villain what is this ' | - |
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| 'Leroy I had a warning | L |
| That my time has come this morning | L |
| So I speak with frankness scorning | L |
| To deny the thing that's true | M |
| Yes it's Amy's is the trinket | D |
| Little turquoise studded trinket | D |
| Not her gift oh never think it | D |
| For her thoughts were all for you | M |
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| 'As we danced I gently drew it | D |
| From her chain she never knew it | D |
| But I love her yes I love her | N |
| I am candid I confess | O |
| But I never told her never | N |
| For I knew 'twas vain endeavour | N |
| And she loved you loved you ever | N |
| Would to God she loved you less ' | - |
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| 'Barrow Barrow you shall pay me | D |
| Me your comrade to betray me | D |
| Well I know that little Amy | D |
| Is as true as wife can be | D |
| She to give this love badged locket | D |
| She had rather Ha the rocket | D |
| Hi McDougall Sound the bugle | P |
| Yorkshires Yorkshires follow me ' | - |
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| Said Paul Leroy to Amy | D |
| 'Well wifie you may blame me | D |
| For my passion overcame me | D |
| When he told me of his shame | Q |
| But when I saw him lying | L |
| Dead amid a ring of dying | L |
| Why poor devil I was trying | L |
| To forget and not to blame | Q |
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| 'And this locket I unclasped it | D |
| From the fingers that still grasped it | D |
| He told me how he got it | D |
| How he stole it in a valse ' | - |
| And she listened leaden hearted | D |
| Oh the weary day they parted | D |
| For she loved him yes she loved him | R |
| For his youth and for his truth | S |
| And for those dying words so false | T |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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