What Have The Cavalry Done? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDAEEAAFFFGHHII JJKKALLAAMMNNFGAA| What have the cavalry done | A |
| Cantered and trotted about | B |
| Routin' the enemy out | B |
| Causin' the beggars to run | A |
| And we tramped along in the blazin' heat | C |
| Over the veldt on our weary feet | C |
| Tramp tramp tramp | D |
| Under the blazin' sun | A |
| With never the sight of a bloomin' Boer | E |
| 'Cause they'd hunted 'em long before | E |
| That's what the cavalry done | A |
| What have the gunners done | A |
| Battlin' every day | F |
| Battlin' any way | F |
| Boers outranged 'em but what cared they | F |
| Shoot and be damned said the R H A | G |
| See when the fight grows hot | H |
| Under the rifles or not | H |
| Always the order runs | I |
| Fetch up the bloomin' guns | I |
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| And you'd see them great gun horses spring | J |
| To the action front and around they'd swing | J |
| Find the range with some queer machine | K |
| At four thousand with fuse fourteen | K |
| Ready Fire number one | A |
| Handled the battery neat and quick | L |
| Stick to it too How did they stick | L |
| Never a gunner was seen to run | A |
| Never a gunner would leave his gun | A |
| Not though his mates dropped all around | M |
| Always a gunner would stand his ground | M |
| Take the army the infantry | N |
| Mounted rifles and cavalry | N |
| Twice the numbers I'd give away | F |
| And I'd fight the lot with the R H A | G |
| For they showed us how a corps should be run | A |
| That's what the gunners done | A |
Banjo Paterson
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