The Gay Gordons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBBD ECECEEED FCFCFFFD| Dargai October | A |
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| Whos for the Gathering who's for the Fair | B |
| Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
| The bravest of the brave are at deadlock there | B |
| Highlanders march by the right | C |
| There are bullets by the hundred buzzing in the air | B |
| There are bonny lads lying on the hillside bare | B |
| But the Gordons know what the Gordons dare | B |
| When they hear the pipers playing | D |
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| The happiest English heart today | E |
| Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
| Is the heart of the Colonel hide it as he may | E |
| Steady there steady on the right | C |
| He sees his work and he sees his way | E |
| He knows his time and the word to say | E |
| And he's thinking of the tune that the Gordons play | E |
| When he sets the pipers playing | D |
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| Rising roaring rushing like the tide | F |
| Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
| They're up through the fire zone not be be denied | F |
| Bayonets and charge by the right | C |
| Thirty bullets straight where the rest went wide | F |
| And thirty lads are lying on the bare hillside | F |
| But they passed in the hour of the Gordons' pride | F |
| To the skirl of the pipers' playing | D |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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