Out Of Khaki Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAB CDDCCD EFFEEF GHHGGH AIIJAI KJJKKL HMMHHM NAANNA| I slung me khaki suit to day | A |
| Civilian now front heel to chin | B |
| I 'op round on a single shin | B |
| At home in peace I'm bound to stay | A |
| 'N' so they've took me duds away | A |
| It 'urt like strippin' off me skin | B |
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| I put it on three years ago | C |
| The ole brown rig There wasn't then | D |
| A prouder chicken in the pen | D |
| Jist twenty turned me nibs you'd know | C |
| For how I give me chest a throw | C |
| A man among the best of men | D |
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| Me little no the touch I give | E |
| Me chin's ez solid ez a rock | F |
| 'N' level with the Town 'All clock | F |
| A five inch grin across me chiv | E |
| Lor' love us this is how to live | E |
| Sez I 'n' felt I owned the Block | F |
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| Glad eyes was ever on the lurk | G |
| 'N' little 'earts was thumpin' warm | H |
| For nippers trainin' with the swarm | H |
| To swat ole Kaiser Bill or work | G |
| A toe hold on the heathen Turk | G |
| Fair dink I loved the uniform | H |
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| I soused mine in the brine that day | A |
| When Tophet spilt 'n' in the roar | I |
| Of shells that split the sea 'n' tore | I |
| Our boats to chips we broke any | J |
| Up through the pelt of leaden spray | A |
| 'N' got our first real taste of war | I |
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| They shot me tunic all to rags | K |
| Then in the perpendic'lar spree | J |
| Me trousers wore off to the knee | J |
| The right abouts of many bags | K |
| Was ground off in the dust 'n' crags | K |
| A sittin' in Gallipoli | L |
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| I wore the khaki on the Somme | H |
| Most time 'twas jist a coat of mud | M |
| I once come through the battle scud | M |
| Stripped mother naked by a bomb | H |
| 'N' once it' took its color from | H |
| Me own 'n' one good cobber's blood | M |
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| They cheered the khaki through the street | N |
| When we come home with pipers gay | A |
| But now I'm jist a bloke in grey | A |
| Harf lost lob sided incomplete | N |
| It's nothin' but me spook you'll meet | N |
| Ghost walkin' in the light o' day | A |
Edward George Dyson
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