It Was A Famous Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD ECFCFF GCHCDD IECEJJ KBLBMM| It was a summer evening | A |
| Old Kaspar was at home | B |
| Sitting before his cottage door | C |
| Like in the Southey pome | B |
| And near him with a magazine | D |
| Idled his grandchild Geraldine | D |
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| Wy don't you ask me Kaspar said | E |
| To the child upon the floor | C |
| Why don't you ask me what I did | F |
| When I was in the war | C |
| They told me that each little kid | F |
| Would surely ask me what I did | F |
| - | |
| I've had my story ready | G |
| For thirty years or more | C |
| Don't bother Grandpa said the child | H |
| I find such things a bore | C |
| Pray leave me to my magazine | D |
| Asserted little Geraldine | D |
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| Then entered little Peterkin | I |
| To whom the gaffer said | E |
| You'd like to hear about the war | C |
| How I was left for dead | E |
| No And besides declared the youth | J |
| How do I know you speak the truth | J |
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| Arose the Wan embittered man | K |
| The hero of this pome | B |
| And walked with not unsprightly step | L |
| Down to the Soldiers' Home | B |
| Where he with seven other men | M |
| Sat swapping lies till half past ten | M |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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