The Franz-street Murder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFDG DHDH IJIJ KDKD LMLN DODP BDB DQDQ| Based and in memory of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia and his wife Sophie who were assassinated in Franz Josef Street Sarajevo June | A |
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| It all happened on June on a Sunday | B |
| When a beautiful day turned to dust | C |
| It all happened on a sunny day | B |
| When the sunshine had to last | D |
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| I was in the crowd we flooded the streets | E |
| With happiness to see the cars appear | F |
| I didn't notice the six men I would've fleed | D |
| But I was late when sorrow was all I could hear | G |
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| I was happy when four large cars came to sight | D |
| and I saw the Archduke in a green open topped car | H |
| But clearly the young man beside me was meant to fight | D |
| I saw him take out a bomb how I wished I was far | H |
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| He gave me a fright when he swallowed his poison | I |
| I almost followed him when he jumped into the river | J |
| I knew Cabrinovic he feared prison | I |
| All he cared for gold and silver | J |
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| The Archduke escaped and drove to 'Town Hall' | K |
| The other assassins heard the explosion and thought he was dead | D |
| Except for the young one Princip I feared them all | K |
| Well no one could've thought of him doing something bad | D |
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| The Archduke tutned to Franz Josef Street and made a mistake | L |
| But it was late when the driver started to reverse | M |
| Princip saw nothing but an afvantage to take | L |
| The driver knew he wouldn't miss but it was a bullet he wouldn't diverge | N |
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| A pistol cracked he fired a shot | D |
| No chance to skeddadle he fired the Archduke's neck | O |
| In the nick of time a second shot | D |
| Hit Sophie's stomach and pierced to the back | P |
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| 'Sophie please don't die for the sake of our kids ' | - |
| Those were the Archduke's final words to say | B |
| After fifteen minutes they died Princip siezed | D |
| But did he get away with it Nay | B |
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| All the plotters were eventually caught | D |
| And Princip died in jail an early grave | Q |
| He didn't give up all he fought | D |
| What a nincompoop thus brave | Q |
Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze
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