Carry On Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEF GGHHThey spoke it bravely grimly in their darkest hours of doubt | A |
They spoke it when their hope was low and when their strength gave out | A |
We heard it from the dying in those troubled days now gone | B |
And they breathed it as their slogan for the living 'Carry on ' | C |
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Now the days of strife are over and the skies are fair again | D |
But those two brave words of courage on our lips should still remain | E |
In the trials which beset us and the cares we look upon | F |
To our dead we should be faithful we have still to 'carry on ' | - |
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'Carry on ' through storm and danger 'carry on' through dark despair | G |
'Carry on' through hurt and failure 'carry on' through grief and care | G |
'Twas the slogan they bequeathed us as they fell beside the way | H |
And for them and for our children let us 'carry on ' to day | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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