The Unsettled Scores Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB| The men are talking peace at 'ome but 'ere we're talking fight | A |
| There's many a little debt we've got to square | B |
| A sniper sent a bullet through my bunkie's 'ead last night | A |
| And 'is body's lying somewhere h'over there | B |
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| Oh we 'ear a lot of rumors that the war is h'almost through | C |
| But Hi'm thinking that it's only arf begun | D |
| Every soldier in the trenches has a little debt that's due | C |
| And Hi'm telling you it's not a money one | D |
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| We 'ave 'eard the bullets whistle and we've 'card the shrapnel sing | E |
| And we've listened to a dying comrade's pleas | F |
| And we've 'eard about the comfort that the days of peace will bring | E |
| But we've debts that can't be settled h'over seas | F |
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| They that 'aven't slept in trenches 'aven't brothered with the worms | G |
| 'Aven't 'ad a bunkie slaughtered at their side | H |
| May someday get together and arrange some sort of terms | G |
| But it isn't likely we'll be satisfied | H |
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| There are debts we want to settle 'and to 'and and face to face | I |
| There are one or two Hi've promised that Hi'd square | B |
| And Hi cannot 'old my 'ead up 'ere or in the other place | I |
| Till Hi've settled for my bunkie lying there | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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