Unarmed Combat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF EGHEIJ KLEMEN OPKQRH STUVGW VPELEJ GEXGEE YZA2B2C2D2In due course of course you will all be issued with | A |
Your proper issue but until tomorrow | B |
You can hardly be said to need it and until that time | C |
We shall have unarmed combat I shall teach you | D |
The various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls | E |
Which you may sometimes meet | F |
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And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls | E |
Do not depend on any sort of weapon | G |
But only on what I might coin a phrase and call | H |
The ever important question of human balance | E |
And the ever important need to be in a strong | I |
Position at the start | J |
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There are many kinds of weakness about the body | K |
Where you would least expect like the ball of the foot | L |
But the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls | E |
Will always come in useful And never be frightened | M |
To tackle from behind it may not be clean to do so | E |
But this global war | N |
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So give them all you have and always give them | O |
As good as you get it will always get you somewhere | P |
You may not know it but you can tie a Jerry | K |
Up without rope it is one of the things I shall teach | Q |
Nothing will matter if only you are ready for him | R |
The readiness is all | H |
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The readiness is all How can I help but feel | S |
I have been here before But somehow then | T |
I was the tied up one How to get out | U |
Was always then my problem And even if I had | V |
A piece of rope I was always the sort of person | G |
Who threw rope aside | W |
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And in my time I had given them all I had | V |
Which was never as good as I got and it got me nowhere | P |
And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls | E |
Somehow or other I always seemed to put | L |
In the wrong place And as for war my wars | E |
Were global from the start | J |
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Perhaps I was never in a strong position | G |
Or the ball of my foot got hurt or I had some weakness | E |
Where I had least expected But I think I see your point | X |
While awaiting a proper issue we must learn the lesson | G |
Of the ever important question of human balance | E |
It is courage that counts | E |
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Things may be the same again and we must fight | Y |
Not in the hope of winning but rather of keeping | Z |
Something alive so that when we meet our end | A2 |
It may be said that we tackled wherever we could | B2 |
That battle fit we lived and though defeated | C2 |
Not without glory fought | D2 |
Henry Reed
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