March Of Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFFGG HHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPJJ QQRRSSCDQQ TTUUOOVVWW CDUHHXYZZ| Left right left right | A |
| We march today for memories the grizzled Digger said | B |
| Memories of lost dreams and comrades gone ahead | B |
| Comrades bloody war took dreams that men have slain | C |
| Left right left right Not ours to dream again | D |
| There was Shorty Hall and Len Pratt Long Joe and Blue | E |
| Skeet and Brolga Houlihan and Fat and me and you | E |
| Bright lads the old bunch eager lads and keen | F |
| That first day we marched down thro' this familiar scene | F |
| Dreams were ours and high hopes went with us overseas | G |
| Left right left right And now 'tis memories | G |
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| We march again for memories the grizzled Digger sighed | H |
| Memories of lost mates of foolish hopes that died | H |
| First Shorty got his issue on the beach at Sari Bair | I |
| Left right left right The vision of him there | I |
| Brought the dawn of disillusion I needed little more | J |
| To blood me to the butchery the filthiness called war | J |
| Shorty like a limp rag slung there anyhow | K |
| Sprawling on the warm sand like I can see him now | K |
| Always was a merry mate a rare lad for fun | L |
| Left right left right And Shorty that was one | L |
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| We march today for memories and they come crowding fast | M |
| As each year adds another page to the story of the past | M |
| Pratt went west at Mena Base raved of home and peace | N |
| Left right left right His was a kind release | N |
| For a Lone Pine shell burst got him and he was less than man | O |
| 'Twas a sniper's bullet bore the name of Brolga Houlihan | O |
| We called him Happy Houlihan the man who took a chance | P |
| Then the Reaper paused and plotted for the rest of them in France | P |
| Except Long Joe the luckless a youth ill shaped for war | J |
| Left right left right And Long Joe was four | J |
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| We march today for memories Little else had we | Q |
| When we marched home as veterans Blue and you and me | Q |
| For Skeet went with a night raid and none came back alive | R |
| Left right left right So Skeet he tallied five | R |
| Five gone and four to fight us and Blue and Fat | S |
| Who vowed he was too big to hit but a whizz bang settled that | S |
| Yet Fat was lucky to the end an end that held no pain | C |
| All hell erupted where he stood and none saw him again | D |
| And Blue marched and you marched and I a war torn three | Q |
| Left right left right Marched with memory | Q |
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| We march again with memories the grizzled Digger spake | T |
| One year Ten years How soon shall we awake | T |
| To glorious reality For lately it would seem | U |
| Left right left right we march within a dream | U |
| Where Shorty is and Blue is and Happy Houlihan | O |
| That seems the only real land with rest for weary man | O |
| For Blue went out three years ago and cruel slow to kill | V |
| Was the war god the grim god who claims victims still | V |
| But you and I old Digger friend will soon march with the rest | W |
| Left right left right In the Army of the West | W |
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| Today we march with memories and years dull the pain | C |
| But God help the young 'uns mate if they must march again | D |
| Left right left right For the young must ever dream | U |
| But we march with memories and ghosts go at our side | H |
| Len Pratt and Long Joe whom men say have died | H |
| And you walk like a ghost mate you do not turn to hear | X |
| Or is it Did the boys say you passed last year | Y |
| Out of this tangled dreaming has your troubled spirit flown | Z |
| Left right left right And I march alone | Z |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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