The Old Major Explains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DD E FFGH IJGG KKLL MMGG NNOGWell you see the fact is Colonel I don't know as I can come | A |
For the farm is not half planted and there's work to do at home | B |
And my leg is getting troublesome it laid me up last fall | C |
And the doctors they have cut and hacked and never found the ball | C |
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And then for an old man like me it's not exactly right | D |
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight | D |
The Union that was well enough way up to ' | - |
But this Re Union maybe now it's mixed with politics | E |
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No Well you understand it best but then you see my lad | F |
I'm deacon now and some might think that the example's bad | F |
And week from next is Conference You said the twelfth of May | G |
Why that's the day we broke their line at Spottsylvan i a | H |
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Hot work eh Colonel wasn't it Ye mind that narrow front | I |
They called it the Death Angle Well well my lad we won't | J |
Fight that old battle over now I only meant to say | G |
I really can't engage to come upon the twelfth of May | G |
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How's Thompson What will he be there Well now I want to know | K |
The first man in the rebel works they called him Swearing Joe | K |
A wild young fellow sir I fear the rascal was but then | L |
Well short of heaven there wa'n't a place he dursn't lead his men | L |
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And Dick you say is coming too And Billy ah it's true | M |
We buried him at Gettysburg I mind the spot do you | M |
A little field below the hill it must be green this May | G |
Perhaps that's why the fields about bring him to me to day | G |
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Well well excuse me Colonel but there are some things that drop | N |
The tail board out one's feelings and the only way's to stop | N |
So they want to see the old man ah the rascals do they eh | O |
Well I've business down in Boston about the twelfth of May | G |
Bret Harte (francis)
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