When Tommy Came Marching Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBBC DBDBBBBBB EFEFGGGGG BBBBACAAC GHGHIJIIKDevine came back the other day | A |
We'd planned a great home comin' | B |
No long trombone we had to play | A |
No fine heroic drummin' | B |
With two sticks and a milk can Borne | B |
Put up a martial clatter | C |
While Carter blew a bullock horn | B |
Says Tom Devine with healthy scorn | B |
Gorstruth what is the matter | C |
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We set three colored petticoats | D |
From Baker's chimneys blowin' | B |
'Tis not the bravest flag that floats | D |
Yet 'twas the finest goin' | B |
We cheered our hero all we knew | B |
No song of praise neglectin' | B |
To show our pride as he limped through | B |
He merely spat and snorted Who | B |
The deuce are yous expectin' | B |
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They lured him to my shop somehow | E |
And sued for news of battle | F |
Says Tom Who rides the mail track now | E |
Who herdin' Stringer's cattle | F |
A dint the Turk put in his head | G |
He covers with a ringlet | G |
He'd won a medal so we read | G |
I might 'ave 'ad it pinched he said | G |
I've sewn it in my singlet | G |
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Says Cole But 'struth you must 'ave seen | B |
A fearful swag of scrappin' | B |
And Tom agrees Where men are keen | B |
That's pretty sure to 'appen | B |
One night a little bloke from Hay | A |
Who plugged a Pentridge warder | C |
Got such a doin' that at day | A |
Amazed they ticked him for a stray | A |
Distinguished Service Order | C |
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Then Sydney Bob was rather vexed | G |
With Green who'd pinched his braces | H |
That was 'continued in our next' | G |
In half a score of places | H |
McCubbin threw his grub at Lea | I |
You know how sticky stew is | J |
They fought till neither man could see | I |
You talk of fight Gorstrike me we | I |
Saw stacks of it at Suez | K |
Edward George Dyson
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