The Single-handed Team Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFFE FEFEEEEGGE HIHJKLKMMN OEOEPQPFFQ RSRSTUTVVU WVQVXYXVVY| We re more than partners Ned 'n' me | A |
| Two sections permanently righted | B |
| Yiv seen us on the mooch maybe | A |
| Like remnants lovin'ly united | C |
| Ned's only got one stump the left | D |
| By 'appy chance I've got its brother | E |
| Of his two dukes he's been bereft | D |
| My left was mauled 'n' had to go | F |
| It fortunitly 'appens though | F |
| I kept the other | E |
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| Ned lost one ear the left 'n' struth | F |
| He dropped the correspondin' weeper | E |
| A Hun he crooled me lovely youth | F |
| By bombin' out me right 'and peeper | E |
| He done a guy too with me ear | E |
| The right 'n' now I dunno whether | E |
| 'Twas Fate's intention butt it's clear | E |
| When trimmed each as the other's mate | G |
| 'Twas up to us two soon or late | G |
| To get together | E |
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| 'Board ship there's me like arf a peach | H |
| 'N' Ned's the other arf but soon it | I |
| Strikes' Bill Carkeek that side by each | H |
| We makes a satisfact'rv unit | J |
| A 'andy cobber on the ship | K |
| Fakes up for us a set of clutches | L |
| That damps us firmly hip to hip | K |
| In seven minutes we can peg | M |
| The mile out on a timber leg | M |
| 'N' two steel crutches | N |
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| We now go halves like Si'mese twins | O |
| 'N' as a team I hold we're bosker | E |
| The blighter on the street that grins | O |
| Has got to deal with Edwin Oscar | E |
| At balls we two step waltz 'n' swing | P |
| 'N' proppin' walls no one has seen us | Q |
| When at the bar I never ring | P |
| The double on ole Ned For both | F |
| One hand must serve 'n' on me oath | F |
| It's fair between us | Q |
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| We jolt one knife 'n' fork 'n' find | R |
| One horse enough for both to ride on | S |
| And neither feller rides behind | R |
| Some sez we put a pile of side on | S |
| Well where's the single handed brace | T |
| Will take us on We'll put the peg in | U |
| Train fine 'n' jump or box or race | T |
| Or wrestle them 'n' more than that | V |
| To clinch a match so 'elp me cat | V |
| We'll throw a leg in | U |
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| He's five feet eight I'm little less | W |
| He's Roman I'm a sort of Proddy | V |
| But no sectarian bitterness | Q |
| Will disunite this sec'lar body | V |
| We're hitched for good we're two in one | X |
| Our taste's the same from togs to tipple | Y |
| But straight it makes me sad ole son | X |
| To think if he should croak or me | V |
| The pore bloke what is left might be | V |
| A bloomin' cripple | Y |
Edward George Dyson
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