How Herman Won The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFDGHCH HIHJKIHJLFMF NOHDPOQDRSJS BTUDVTBDHWJW XYBHZYA2HLBCB B2HTCC2HD2CD2JNJ E2F2PCG2F2CCH2BCB GD2SCZD2NCTI2CJ2| Once in a blue eternity they gave us | A |
| dabs of rum | B |
| To close the seams 'n' keep the flume in | C |
| liquor tight condition | D |
| But soft 'n' sentimental when the long cold | E |
| evenin's come | B |
| I'd dream me nibs was dronking' to the height | F |
| of his ambition | D |
| With rights of suction over all the breweries | G |
| there are | H |
| Where barrels squat like Brahma gods in | C |
| Mother Hardy's bar | H |
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| I had me fit of longin' on the night the Ger | H |
| mans came | I |
| All breathin' lioke a gas attack The air | H |
| was halcholic | J |
| We smelt 'em in the darkness 'n' our rage | K |
| went up in flame | I |
| It was envy squealin' envy put the ginger | H |
| in the frolic | J |
| We shot 'em full of spelter then went over it | L |
| to spite | F |
| The swines what drunk the liquor that was | M |
| ours by common right | F |
| - | |
| If this ain't stopped 'n' quick sez we | N |
| there won't be left a drop | O |
| To celebrate the vict'ry when we capture | H |
| their position | D |
| I'm prowlin' blind when sharp there comes a | P |
| fond familiar plop | O |
| Swung round a post a German in a pitiful | Q |
| condition | D |
| Looms over me He's sprung a cork and | R |
| shales a flask on high | S |
| 'N' sings of beer that touchin' it would make | J |
| a butcher cry | S |
| - | |
| Sez he Berloffed kamarid you haf some | B |
| drinks mit you | T |
| I meant to spike him where he waved | U |
| but altered me intention | D |
| 'N' If you put it thus sez I I don't | V |
| care if I do | T |
| We had a drink together There's a tem | B |
| por'y suspension | D |
| Of hostilities to sample contraband 'n' other | H |
| stuff | W |
| In the enemy's possession Which I think | J |
| he's had enough | W |
| - | |
| That Hun had thirty pockets 'n' he'd stowed | X |
| a flask in each | Y |
| 'N' presently I'm thinkin' I could love him | B |
| like a brother | H |
| He's talkin' fond 'n' friendly in outlandish | Z |
| parts of speech | Y |
| You're prisoner of war I sez 'n' then | A2 |
| we had another | H |
| Ten flasks he pours into his hat 'n' fills it | L |
| to the brim | B |
| 'N' weeps 'n' sez his frau she will be waitin' | C |
| up for him | B |
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| We drink each other's health 'n' know no | B2 |
| henmity nor fear | H |
| I see I've got to pinch him but he's out to | T |
| do his div in | C |
| 'N' don't care if he don't go home till day | C2 |
| light doth appear | H |
| Sez he I pud you home to bed upside dot | D2 |
| 'ouse you live in | C |
| He shakes his finger in me eye Mein friendt | D2 |
| you're preddy trunk | J |
| Then arm in arm through No Man's land we | N |
| does a social bunk | J |
| - | |
| There's Fear afoot Comes more than once | E2 |
| the glug of sudden death | F2 |
| We're rockin' fine 'n' careless where the | P |
| rifle fire is breakin' | C |
| 'N' singin' most uproar'ous in the bomb's | G2 |
| disgustin' breath | F2 |
| Of girls 'n' drink 'n' cheerful sprees 'n' | C |
| 'Herman thinks he's takin' | C |
| A cobber home to somewhere in an subbub | H2 |
| damp 'n' dim | B |
| Whereas I know fer certain it is me is takin' | C |
| him | B |
| - | |
| Somehow sometime I lands him where he's | G |
| safely put to bed | D2 |
| I wake nex' day 'n' holy smoke I'm pri | S |
| soner with the German | C |
| Me mouth is like an ashpan there's hot fish | Z |
| bolts in me head | D2 |
| 'N' through the barb wire peerin' is me | N |
| foreigh cobber 'Erman | C |
| Ve capdure each lasd nighd sez he you | T |
| home haf bring me boss | I2 |
| For bravery in takin' me he got the Iron | C |
| Cross | J2 |
Edward George Dyson
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