At The Sound Of The Drum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB| ARE you going for a soldier with your curly yellow hair | A |
| And a scarlet coat instead of the smock you used to wear | A |
| Are you going to drive the foe as you used to drive the plough | B |
| Are you going for a soldier now | B |
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| I am going for a soldier and my tunic is of red | C |
| And I'm tired of woman's chatter and I'll hear the drum instead | C |
| I will break the fighting line as you broke your plighted vow | B |
| For I'm going for a soldier now | B |
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| For a soldier for a soldier are you sure that you will go | D |
| To hear the drums a beating and to hear the bugles blow | D |
| I'll make you sweeter music for I'll swear another vow | B |
| Are you going for a soldier now | B |
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| I am going for a soldier if you'd twenty vows to make | E |
| You must get another sweetheart with another heart to break | E |
| For I'm sick of lies and women and the harrow and the plough | B |
| And I'm going for a soldier now | B |
Edith Nesbit
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