Grafted Into The Army Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB BDB EBEBDDDB FBFBGGGB| Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent | A |
| they have grafted him into the Army | B |
| he finally puckered up courage and went | A |
| when they grafted him into the Army | B |
| I told them the child was too young alas | C |
| At the captains forequarters they said he would pass | C |
| they'd train him up well in the Infantry class | C |
| so they grafted him into the Army | B |
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| Oh Jimmy farewell Your brothers fell way down in Alabammy | B |
| I though they would spare a lone widder's heir | D |
| but they grafted him into the Army | B |
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| Dressed up in his unicorn dear little chap | E |
| they have grafted him into the Army | B |
| it seems but a day since he sot in my lap | E |
| but they grafted him into the Army | B |
| And these are the trousies he used to wear | D |
| them very same buttons the patch and the tear | D |
| but Uncle Sam gave him a bran' new pair | D |
| when they grafted him into the Army | B |
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| Now in my provisions I see him revealed | F |
| they have grafted him into the Army | B |
| a picket beside the contented field | F |
| they have grafted him into the Army | B |
| He looks kinder sickish begins to cry | G |
| a big volunteer standing right in his eye | G |
| Oh what if the ducky should up and die | G |
| now they've grafted him into the Army | B |
Henry Clay Work
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