Come Back Clean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIAJEKE JLMLNEOP E AQRQGES| This is the song for a soldier | A |
| To sing as he rides from home | B |
| To the fields afar where the battles are | C |
| Or over the ocean's foam | B |
| 'Whatever the dangers waiting | D |
| In the lands I have not seen | E |
| If I do not fall if I come back at all | F |
| Then I will come back clean | E |
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| 'I may lie in the mud of the trenches | G |
| I may reek with blood and mire | H |
| But I will control by the God in my soul | I |
| The might of my man's desire | A |
| I will fight my foe in the open | J |
| But my sword shall be sharp and keen | E |
| For the foe within who would lure me to sin | K |
| And I will come back clean | E |
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| 'I may not leave for my children | J |
| Brave medals that I have worn | L |
| But the blood in my veins shall leave no stains | M |
| On bride or on babes unborn | L |
| And the scars that my body may carry | N |
| Shall not be from deeds obscene | E |
| For my will shall say to the beast | O |
| Obey | P |
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| And I will come back clean | E |
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| 'Oh not on the fields of slaughter | A |
| And not in the prison cell | Q |
| Or in hunger and cold is the story told | R |
| By war of its darkest hell | Q |
| But the old old sin of the senses | G |
| Can tell what that word may mean | E |
| To the soldiers' wives and to innocent lives | S |
| And I will come back clean ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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