The Drum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEAEA FDFDGHGHAEAE DIDIJKJKJAJA LKLKMAMAJAJA| I'm a beautiful red red drum | A |
| And I train with the soldier boys | B |
| As up the street we come | A |
| Wonderful is our noise | B |
| There's Tom and Jim and Phil | C |
| And Dick and Nat and Fred | D |
| While Widow Cutler's Bill | C |
| And I march on ahead | D |
| With a r r rat tat tat | E |
| And a tum titty um tum tum | A |
| Oh there's bushels of fun in that | E |
| For boys with a little red drum | A |
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| The Injuns came last night | F |
| While the soldiers were abed | D |
| And they gobbled a Chinese kite | F |
| And off to the woods they fled | D |
| The woods are the cherry trees | G |
| Down in the orchard lot | H |
| And the soldiers are marching to seize | G |
| The booty the Injuns got | H |
| With tum titty um tum tum | A |
| And r r rat tat tat | E |
| When soldiers marching come | A |
| Injuns had better scat | E |
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| Step up there little Fred | D |
| And Charley have a mind | I |
| Jim is as far ahead | D |
| As you two are behind | I |
| Ready with gun and sword | J |
| Your valorous work to do | K |
| Yonder the Injun horde | J |
| Are lying in wait for you | K |
| And their hearts go pitapat | J |
| When they hear the soldiers come | A |
| With a r r rat tat tat | J |
| And a tum titty um tum tum | A |
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| Course it's all in play | L |
| The skulking Injun crew | K |
| That hustled the kite away | L |
| Are little white boys like you | K |
| But honest or just in fun | M |
| It is all the same to me | A |
| And when the battle is won | M |
| Home once again march we | A |
| With a r r rat tat tat | J |
| And tum titty um tum tum | A |
| And there's glory enough in that | J |
| For the boys with their little red drum | A |
Eugene Field
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