How Herman Won The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GBGBHH IBIBJJ KLKLMM NONOEE POPOMM QOQORS| Once in a blue eternity they gave us dabs of rum | A |
| To close the seams 'n' keep the flume in liquor tight condition | B |
| But soft 'n' sentimental when the long cold evenin's come | A |
| I'd dream me nibs was dronking' to the height of his ambition | B |
| With rights of suction over all the breweries there are | C |
| Where barrels squat like Brahma gods in Mother Hardy's bar | C |
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| I had me fit of longin' on the night the Germans came | D |
| All breathin' lioke a gas attack The air was halcholic | E |
| We smelt 'em in the darkness 'n' our rage went up in flame | D |
| It was envy squealin' envy put the ginger in the frolic | E |
| We shot 'em full of spelter then went over it to spite | F |
| The swines what drunk the liquor that was ours by common right | F |
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| If this ain't stopped 'n' quick sez we there won't be left a drop | G |
| To celebrate the vict'ry when we capture their position | B |
| I'm prowlin' blind when sharp there comes a fond familiar plop | G |
| Swung round a post a German in a pitiful condition | B |
| Looms over me He's sprung a cork and shales a flask on high | H |
| 'N' sings of beer that touchin' it would make a butcher cry | H |
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| Sez he Berloffed kamarid you haf some drinks mit you | I |
| I meant to spike him where he waved but altered me intention | B |
| 'N' If you put it thus sez I I don't care if I do | I |
| We had a drink together There's a tempor'y suspension | B |
| Of hostilities to sample contraband 'n' other stuff | J |
| In the enemy's possession Which I think he's had enough | J |
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| That Hun had thirty pockets 'n' he'd stowed a flask in each | K |
| 'N' presently I'm thinkin' I could love him like a brother | L |
| He's talkin' fond 'n' friendly in outlandish parts of speech | K |
| You're prisoner of war I sez 'n' then we had another | L |
| Ten flasks he pours into his hat 'n' fills it to the brim | M |
| 'N' weeps 'n' sez his frau she will be waitin' up for him | M |
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| We drink each other's health 'n' know no henmity nor fear | N |
| I see I've got to pinch him but he's out to do his div in | O |
| 'N' don't care if he don't go home till daylight doth appear | N |
| Sez he I pud you home to bed upside dot 'ouse you live in | O |
| He shakes his finger in me eye Mein friendt you're preddy trunk | E |
| Then arm in arm through No Man's land we does a social bunk | E |
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| There's Fear afoot Comes more than once the glug of sudden death | P |
| We're rockin' fine 'n' careless where the rifle fire is breakin' | O |
| 'N' singin' most uproar'ous in the bomb's disgustin' breath | P |
| Of girls 'n' drink 'n' cheerful sprees 'n' 'Herman thinks he's takin' | O |
| A cobber home to somewhere in an subbub damp 'n' dim | M |
| Whereas I know fer certain it is me is takin' him | M |
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| Somehow sometime I lands him where he's safely put to bed | Q |
| I wake nex' day 'n' holy smoke I'm prisoner with the German | O |
| Me mouth is like an ashpan there's hot fish bolts in me head | Q |
| 'N' through the barb wire peerin' is me foreigh cobber 'Erman | O |
| Ve capdure each lasd nighd sez he you home haf bring me boss | R |
| For bravery in takin' me he got the Iron Cross | S |
Edward Dyson
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