The Draft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBC DEDDDF GHGGGH IJIIIJ KLKKKL| January | A |
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| Old Father Abe has issued his Call | B |
| For Three Hundred Thousand more | C |
| By Jupiter boys he is after you all | B |
| Lamed and maimed tall and small | B |
| With his drag net spread for a general haul | B |
| Of the suckers uncaught before | C |
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| I am sorry to see such a woeful change | D |
| In the health of the hardiest | E |
| It is wonderful odd it is passing strange | D |
| As over the country you travel and range | D |
| To behold such a sudden lamentable change | D |
| All over the East and the West | F |
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| Blades tough and hearty a week ago | G |
| Who tippled and danced and laughed | H |
| Are suddenly taken and some quite low | G |
| With an epidemical illness you know | G |
| What Zounds the cholera you quiz no no | G |
| The doctors call it the Draft | H |
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| What a blessed thing it were to be old | I |
| A little past forty five | J |
| 'Twere better indeed than a purse of gold | I |
| At a premium yet unwritten untold | I |
| For what poor devil that's now enrolled | I |
| Expects to get off alive | J |
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| There's a miracle wrought in the Democrats | K |
| They swore it was murder and sin | L |
| To put in the Niggers like Kilkenny cats | K |
| To clear the ship of the rebel rats | K |
| But now I notice they swing their hats | K |
| And shout to the Niggers Go in | L |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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