When Tommy Came Marching Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBBC DBDBBBBBB EFEFGGGGG BBBBACAAC GHGHIJIIK| Devine came back the other day | A |
| We'd planned a great home comin' | B |
| No long trombone we had to play | A |
| No fine heroic drummin' | B |
| With two sticks and a milk can Borne | B |
| Put up a martial clatter | C |
| While Carter blew a bullock horn | B |
| Says Tom Devine with healthy scorn | B |
| Gorstruth what is the matter | C |
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| We set three colored petticoats | D |
| From Baker's chimneys blowin' | B |
| 'Tis not the bravest flag that floats | D |
| Yet 'twas the finest goin' | B |
| We cheered our hero all we knew | B |
| No song of praise neglectin' | B |
| To show our pride as he limped through | B |
| He merely spat and snorted Who | B |
| The deuce are yous expectin' | B |
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| They lured him to my shop somehow | E |
| And sued for news of battle | F |
| Says Tom Who rides the mail track now | E |
| Who herdin' Stringer's cattle | F |
| A dint the Turk put in his head | G |
| He covers with a ringlet | G |
| He'd won a medal so we read | G |
| I might 'ave 'ad it pinched he said | G |
| I've sewn it in my singlet | G |
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| Says Cole But 'struth you must 'ave seen | B |
| A fearful swag of scrappin' | B |
| And Tom agrees Where men are keen | B |
| That's pretty sure to 'appen | B |
| One night a little bloke from Hay | A |
| Who plugged a Pentridge warder | C |
| Got such a doin' that at day | A |
| Amazed they ticked him for a stray | A |
| Distinguished Service Order | C |
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| Then Sydney Bob was rather vexed | G |
| With Green who'd pinched his braces | H |
| That was 'continued in our next' | G |
| In half a score of places | H |
| McCubbin threw his grub at Lea | I |
| You know how sticky stew is | J |
| They fought till neither man could see | I |
| You talk of fight Gorstrike me we | I |
| Saw stacks of it at Suez | K |
Edward Dyson
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