In Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEB FFFF EF GFHFF IF FFFFJ KFLFMF NFOFIF PF| Through sleet and fogs to the saline bogs | A |
| Where the herring fish meanders | B |
| An army sped and then 't is said | C |
| Swore terribly in Flanders | B |
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| A hideous store of oaths they swore | E |
| Did the army over in Flanders | B |
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| At this distant day we're unable to say | F |
| What so aroused their danders | F |
| But it's doubtless the case to their lasting disgrace | F |
| That the army swore in Flanders | F |
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| And many more such oaths they swore | E |
| Did that impious horde in Flanders | F |
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| Some folks contend that these oaths without end | G |
| Began among the commanders | F |
| That taking this cue the subordinates too | H |
| Swore terribly in Flanders | F |
| Twas | F |
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| Why the air was blue with the hullaballoo | I |
| Of those wicked men in Flanders | F |
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| But some suppose that the trouble arose | F |
| With a certain Corporal Sanders | F |
| Who sought to abuse the wooden shoes | F |
| That the natives wore in Flanders | F |
| Saying | J |
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| What marvel then that the other men | K |
| Felt encouraged to swear in Flanders | F |
| At any rate as I grieve to state | L |
| Since these soldiers vented their danders | F |
| Conjectures obtain that for language profane | M |
| There is no such place as Flanders | F |
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| This is the kind of talk you'll find | N |
| If ever you go to Flanders | F |
| How wretched is he wherever he be | O |
| That unto this habit panders | F |
| And how glad am I that my interests lie | I |
| In Chicago and not in Flanders | F |
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| Would never go down in this circumspect town | P |
| However it might in Flanders | F |
Eugene Field
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