Dawgs Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBB C BBDDBBBB C BBEEBBBB C FFGGBBBB C HHBBIII C JJKKBBBB C FFBBBBBBB C LMEE C| Comes the British bulldog first solid as a log | A |
| He s so ugly in repose that he s a handsome dog | A |
| Full of mild benevolence as his years increase | B |
| Silent as a china dog on the mantelpiece | B |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and in he goes | B |
| To the thick of Britain s foes | B |
| Enemies behind him close | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| Comes a very different dog tell him at a glance | B |
| Clipped and trimmed and frilled all round Dandy dog of France | B |
| Always was a dandy dog no matter what his age | D |
| Now his every hair and frill is stiff as wire with rage | D |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and in he goes | B |
| While behind him France s foes | B |
| Reel and surge and pack and close | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| Next comes Belgium s market dog hard to realise | B |
| Go cart dog and barrow dog he s a great surprise | B |
| Dog that never hurt a cat did no person harm | E |
| Friendly kindly round and fat as a Johnny Darm | E |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and in he goes | B |
| At the flank of Belgium s foes | B |
| Who could not behind him close | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| Next comes Servia s mongrel pup mongrel dawgs can fight | F |
| Up or down or down or up whether wrong or right | F |
| He was mad the other day he is mad today | G |
| Hustling round and raising dust in his backyard way | G |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and in he goes | B |
| Twixt the legs of Servia s foes | B |
| Biting tails and rearmost toes | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| There are various terrier dawgs mixed up in the scrap | H |
| Much too small for us to see and too mad to yap | H |
| Each one on his frantic own heard the row commence | B |
| Tore with tooth and claw a hole in the backyard fence | B |
| No one called but in they go | I |
| Dogs with many a nameless woe | I |
| Tripping up their common foe | I |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| From the snows of Canada dragging box and bale | J |
| Comes the sledge dog toiling on sore foot from the trail | J |
| He ll be useful in the trench when the nose is blue | K |
| Winter dog that knows the French and the English too | K |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and in he goes | B |
| At his father s country s foes | B |
| And his mother s country s foes | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| See in sunny Southern France a dog that runs by sight | F |
| Lean and yellow sharp of nose long of leg and light | F |
| Silent and bloodthirsty too Distance in his eyes | B |
| Leaping high to gain his view the Kangaroo Dog flies | B |
| Rub his sides and point his nose | B |
| Click your tongue and up he goes | B |
| Lands amongst his country s foes | B |
| And his country s country s foes | B |
| While they sway and while they close | B |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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| See across the early snow far across the plain | L |
| Where the clouds are grey and low and winter comes again | M |
| By the sand dune and the marsh and forest black and dumb | E |
| As dusky white as their winter s night the Russian wolf hounds come | E |
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| Silence for a while | C |
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Henry Lawson
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