The Doughboy's Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DDEE C FFBB G HHII J KKLL G MMNN J OOPP| Horace Book III Ode | A |
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| Donec eram gratus tibi | B |
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| HORACE PVT TH INFANTRY A E F WRITES | C |
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| While I was fussing you at home | D |
| You put the notion in my dome | D |
| That I was the Molasses Kid | E |
| I batted strong I'll say I did | E |
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| LYDIA ANYBURG U S A WRITES | C |
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| While you were fussing me alone | F |
| To other boys my heart was stone | F |
| When I was all that you could see | B |
| No girl had anything on me | B |
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| HORACE | G |
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| Well say I'm having some romance | H |
| With one Babette of Northern France | H |
| If that girl gave me the command | I |
| I'd dance a jig in No Man's Land | I |
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| LYDIA | J |
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| I too have got a young affair | K |
| With Charley say that boy is there | K |
| I'd just as soon go out and die | L |
| If I thought it'd please that guy | L |
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| HORACE | G |
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| Suppose I can this foreign wren | M |
| And start things up with you again | M |
| Suppose I promise to be good | N |
| I'd love you Lyd I'll say I would | N |
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| LYDIA | J |
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| Though Charley's good and handsome oh boy | O |
| And you're a stormy fickle doughboy | O |
| So give the Hun his final whack | P |
| And I'll marry you when you come back | P |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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