The Germ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEFGDGGD HIHIJKJJK IBIBLMLLM NONOPIPPI FQFRSTSSUI took to khaki at a word | A |
And fashioned dreams of wonder | B |
I rode the great sea like a bird | A |
Chock full of blood and thunder | B |
I saw myself upon the field | C |
Of battle framed in glory | D |
Compelling stubborn foes to yield | C |
As captives to my sword and shield | C |
This is another story | D |
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We sat about in sun and sand | E |
We broke old Cairo's images | F |
Met here and there a swarthy band | E |
In little friendly scrimmages | F |
And here it is I start to kid | G |
No Moslem born can hit me | D |
The Germ then that had long laid hid | G |
Came out of Pharaoh's pyramid | G |
And covertly he bit me | D |
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For some few days I wore an air | H |
Of pensive introspection | I |
And then I curled down anywhere | H |
They whispered of infection | I |
And hoist me on two sticks as though | J |
I bore the leper's label | K |
And took me where all in a row | J |
Of tiny beds two score or so | J |
Were raising second Babel | K |
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But no man talked to any one | I |
And no bloke knew another | B |
This soldier raved about his gun | I |
And that one of his mother | B |
They were the victims of the Germ | L |
The imp that Satan pricks in | M |
First cousin to the Coffin Worm | L |
Whose uncomputed legions squirm | L |
Some foul atomic Styx in | M |
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The Germ rides with the plunging shell | N |
Or on the belts that fret you | O |
Or in a speck of dust may well | N |
One thousand years to get you | O |
Well ambushed in a tunic fold | P |
He waits his special mission | I |
And never lad so big and bold | P |
But turns to water in his hold | P |
And dribbles to perdition | I |
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Where is war's pomp and circumstance | F |
The gauds in which we prank it | Q |
Germ ends for us our fine romance | F |
Wrapped in a dingy blanket | R |
We set out braggartly in mirth | S |
World's bravest men and tallest | T |
To do the mightiest thing on earth | S |
And here we're lying nothing worth | S |
Succumbent to the smallest | U |
Edward George Dyson
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