American Boys, Hello! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDEED FBGGG HI FBJKJ J EE| Oh we love all the French and we speak in French | A |
| As along through France we go | B |
| But the moments to us that are keen and sweet | C |
| Are the ones when our khaki boys we meet | C |
| Stalwart and handsome and trim and neat | C |
| And we call to them 'Boys hello ' | D |
| 'Hello American boys | E |
| Luck to you and life's best joys | E |
| American boys hello ' | D |
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| We couldn't do that if we were at home | F |
| It never would do you know | B |
| For there you must wait till you're told who's who | G |
| And to meet in the way that nice folks do | G |
| Though you knew his name and your name he knew | G |
| You never would say 'Hello hello American boy ' | - |
| But here it's just a joy | H |
| As we pass along in the stranger throng | I |
| To call out 'Boys hello ' | - |
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| For each is a brother away from home | F |
| And this we are sure is so | B |
| There's a lonesome spot in his heart somewhere | J |
| And we want him to feel there are friends | K |
| right there | J |
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| In this foreign land and so we dare | J |
| To call out 'Boys hello ' | - |
| 'Hello American boys | E |
| Luck to you and life's best joys | E |
| American boys hello ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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