The Jolly Dead March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDDDDEFEF CGCGHIHJ CKCKDKDK CLCLMNMNC KOKOPCPCCC KQKQPKPK CKCKDKDK DDDDEFEF

If I ever be worthy or famousA
Which I m sadly beginning to doubtB
When the angel whose place tis to name usA
Shall say to my spirit Pass outB
I wish for no sniv lling about meC
My work was the work of the landD
But I hope that my country will shout meC
The price of a decent brass bandD
Thump thump of the drum and Ta ra ritD
Thump thump and the music it s grandD
If only in dreams or in spiritD
To ride or march after the bandD
And myself and my mourners go strayingE
And strolling and drifting alongF
With a band in the front of us playingE
The tune of an old battle songF
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I ask for no turn out to bear meC
I ask not for railings or slabsG
And spare me my country oh spare meC
The hearse and the long string of cabsG
I ask not the baton or starts ofH
The bore with the musical earI
But the music that s blown from the hearts ofH
The men who work hard and drink beerJ
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And let em strike up Annie LaurieC
And let them burst out with Lang SyneK
Twin voices of sadness and gloryC
That have ever been likings of mineK
And give the French war hymn deep throatedD
The Watch of the Germans betweenK
And let the last mile be devotedD
To Britannia and Wearing the GreenK
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And if in the end more s the pityC
There is fame more than money to spareL
There s a van man I know in the cityC
Who ll convey me right side up with careL
True sons of Australia and nobleM
Have gone from the long dusty wayN
While the sole mourner fought down his troubleM
With his pipe on the shaft of the drayN
But let them strike up Annie Laurie cC
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And my spirit will join the processionK
Will pause if it may on the brinkO
Nor feel the least shade of depressionK
When the mourners drop out for a drinkO
It may be a hot day in DecemberP
Or a cold day in June it may beC
And the drink will but help them rememberP
The good points the world missed in meC
And help em to love Annie LaurieC
And help em to raise Auld Lang Syne cC
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Unhook the West Port for an orphanK
An old digger chorus reviveQ
If you don t hear a whoop from the coffinK
I am not being buried aliveQ
But I ll go with a spirit less bitterP
Than mine own on the earth may have beenK
And perhaps to save trouble Saint PeterP
Will pass me two comrades betweenK
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And let them strike up Annie LaurieC
And let em burst out with Lang SyneK
Twin voices of sadness and gloryC
That have ever been likings of mineK
Let them swell the French war hymn deep throatedD
And I ll not buck at God Save the QueenK
But let the last mile be devotedD
To Britannia and Wearing the GreenK
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Thump thump of the drums we inheritD
War drums of my dreams Oh it s grandD
If only in fancy or spiritD
To ride or march after a bandD
And we the World Battlers go strayingE
And loving and laughing alongF
With Hope in the lead of us playingE
The tune of a life battle songF

Henry Lawson



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