Youth In Arms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCEE FGHGHG IJKLMJ NOPOHO QRQRSS| A | |
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| HAPPY boy happy boy | B |
| David the immortal willed | C |
| Youth a thousand thousand times | D |
| Slain but not once killed | C |
| Swaggering again today | E |
| In the old contemptuous way | E |
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| Leaning backward from your thigh | F |
| Up against the tinselled bar | G |
| Dust and ashes is it you | H |
| Laughing boasting there you are | G |
| First we hardly recognized you | H |
| In your modern avatar | G |
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| Soldier rifle brown khaki | I |
| Is your blood as happy so | J |
| Where s your sling or painted shield | K |
| Helmet pike or bow | L |
| Well you re going to the wars | M |
| That is all you need to know | J |
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| Graybeards plotted They were sad | N |
| Death was in their wrinkled eyes | O |
| At their tables with their maps | P |
| Plans and calculations wise | O |
| They all seemed for well they knew | H |
| How ungrudgingly Youth dies | O |
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| At their green official baize | Q |
| They debated all the night | R |
| Plans for your adventurous days | Q |
| Which you followed with delight | R |
| Youth in all your wanderings | S |
| David of a thousand slings | S |
Harold Monro
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