How Are You, Sanitary? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDBEEEB FGGBHHHB IIIBJJJB| Down the picket guarded lane | A |
| Rolled the comfort laden wain | A |
| Cheered by shouts that shook the plain | A |
| Soldier like and merry | B |
| Phrases such as camps may teach | C |
| Sabre cuts of Saxon speech | C |
| Such as Bully Them's the peach | C |
| Wade in Sanitary | B |
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| Right and left the caissons drew | D |
| As the car went lumbering through | D |
| Quick succeeding in review | D |
| Squadrons military | B |
| Sunburnt men with beards like frieze | E |
| Smooth faced boys and cries like these | E |
| U S San Com That's the cheese | E |
| Pass in Sanitary | B |
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| In such cheer it struggled on | F |
| Till the battle front was won | G |
| Then the car its journey done | G |
| Lo was stationary | B |
| And where bullets whistling fly | H |
| Came the sadder fainter cry | H |
| Help us brothers ere we die | H |
| Save us Sanitary | B |
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| Such the work The phantom flies | I |
| Wrapped in battle clouds that rise | I |
| But the brave whose dying eyes | I |
| Veiled and visionary | B |
| See the jasper gates swung wide | J |
| See the parted throng outside | J |
| Hears the voice to those who ride | J |
| Pass in Sanitary | B |
Bret Harte
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