Weeping Willie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHAH IBDBJDJDKLGL AAMAJJAJNJDJ JJDJOJJJPQBQ RJBJAJOJGSOS TQOQAJJJDJUJ JKJKDJAJOOUO| Whey our trooper hit wide water every | A |
| heart was yearin' back | B |
| To the little 'ouse at Coogee or a hut at Bar | C |
| renjack | B |
| She was 'ookin' up to spike the stars or rootin' | D |
| in the wave | E |
| An' me liver turned a hand spring with each | F |
| buck the beggar gave | E |
| Then we pulls a sick 'n' silly smile 'n' tips a | G |
| saucy lid | H |
| Crackin' hardy Willie didn't Willie | A |
| snivelled like a kid | H |
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| At Gallip' the steamer dumped us 'n' we got | I |
| right down to work | B |
| Whoopin' up the hill splendacious playin' | D |
| tiggie with the Turk | B |
| When the stinkin' Abdul hit us we curled | J |
| down upon a stone | D |
| 'N' we yelled for greater glory crackin' 'ardy | J |
| on our own | D |
| Not so Willie He was cursin' cold ez death | K |
| 'n' grey ez steel | L |
| 'N' the smallest thing that busted made the | G |
| little blighter squeal | L |
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| In the bitter day's that follered spillin' life be | A |
| side the sea | A |
| We would fake a spry expression for the things | M |
| that had to be | A |
| Always dressin' up the winder crackin' 'ardy | J |
| though we felt | J |
| Fearful creepy in the whiskers very cold be | A |
| neath the belt | J |
| But his jills would sniff 'n' shiver in the mother | N |
| of a fright | J |
| 'N' go blubberin' 'n' quakin' out to waller in | D |
| the fight | J |
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| In the West we liked the weather 'n' we fat | J |
| tened in the mud | J |
| Crackin' 'ardy stewed together rats an' | D |
| slurry men 'n' blood | J |
| Weepin' Willie wouldn't have it these was | O |
| pleasin' things abed | J |
| 'N' he shuddered in his shimmy if they passed | J |
| him with the dead | J |
| When he cried about his mother in a gentle | P |
| voice he'd tell | Q |
| Them as dumb well didn't like it they could go | B |
| to sudden 'ell | Q |
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| There was nothin' sweet for Willie in a rough | R |
| up in the wet | J |
| But if all things scared him purple not a thing | B |
| had stopped him yet | J |
| If some chaps was wanted urgent special dirty | A |
| work to do | J |
| Willie went in with a shudder but he alwiz | O |
| saw it through | J |
| Oh a busy little body was our Willie in a | G |
| crush | S |
| Then he'd cry out in the night about the faces | O |
| in the slush | S |
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| Well they pinked him one fine mornin' with | T |
| a thumpin' 'unk iv shell | Q |
| Put it in 'n' all across him What he was | O |
| you couldn't tell | Q |
| I saw him stitched 'n' mended where he | A |
| whimpered in his bed | J |
| 'N' he'd on'y lived because he was afraid to | J |
| die he said | J |
| Sez he Struth they're out there fightin' | D |
| trimmin' Boshes good 'n' smart | J |
| While I'm bedded here 'n' 'elpless It fair | U |
| breaks a feller's 'eart | J |
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| But he came again last Tuesday ' n' we go it | J |
| in a breath | K |
| London's big 'n' black 'n' noisy It would | J |
| scare a bloke to death | K |
| He's away now in the trenches white 'n' | D |
| nervous but you bet | J |
| Playin' lovely 'ands of poker with his busy | A |
| bay o net | J |
| 'Fraid of givin' 'n' of takin' 'fraid of gases | O |
| 'fraid of guns | O |
| But a champion lightweight terror to the gor | U |
| forsaken 'Uns | O |
Edward George Dyson
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