Jam - A Hymn Of Hate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDEDED FEFEGDGDGD BBBBDDDDDD BDBDBDBDBD| What is meant by active service | A |
| 'Ere where sin is leakin' loose | B |
| 'N' the oldest 'and's as nervis | B |
| As a dog bedevilled goose | B |
| Has bin writ be every poet | C |
| What can rhyme it worth a dam | D |
| But the 'orror as we know it | E |
| Is jist jam jam Jam | D |
| Oh the 'ymn of 'ate we owe it | E |
| Stodgy splodgy seepy soaky sanguinary jam | D |
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| There's the fearful roar iv battle | F |
| What gets underneath yer 'at | E |
| Mooin' like a million cattle | F |
| Each as big as Ararat | E |
| There's the red field green 'n' slippy | G |
| And I'm cleaner where I am | D |
| But the thing that's got me nippy | G |
| It is jam jam Jam | D |
| Druv us sour it has 'n' dippy | G |
| Sticky sicky slimy sloppy stummick strafin' jam | D |
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| Of the mud that's in the trenches | B |
| Writers make a solemn fuss | B |
| For the vermin 'n' the stenches | B |
| Little ladies pity us | B |
| But the yearn that's honest dinkum | D |
| 'N' the prayer what ain't a sham | D |
| Is that Fritz may bust 'n' sink 'em | D |
| Ships of jam jam Jam | D |
| For we bolt 'em chew 'em drink 'em | D |
| Million billion bar'ls of beastly cloyin' clammy jam | D |
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| We are sorry sick of peaches | B |
| 'N' we're full right up of plum | D |
| 'N' innards fairly screeches | B |
| When the tins of apple come | D |
| Back of Blighty piled in cases | B |
| Jist as close as they can cram | D |
| Fillin' all the open spaces | B |
| Is the 'jam jam Jam | D |
| Oh the woe the soldiers face is | B |
| Monday Sunday ruddy muddy boundless bogs of jam | D |
Edward Dyson
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