The Temperance Army Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBF BFGEHIBI JKJKBLML BNBNOPOP QRSTUVDV BPBPBFJE| Come all ye friends and citizens | A |
| Where ever you may be | B |
| Come listen to a few kind words | C |
| A friend will say to thee | B |
| Although going to speak to you | D |
| I mean you all no harm | E |
| Tho' I wish you'd join the army | B |
| Of the temperance reform | F |
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| Come join the glorious army | B |
| Of the temperance reform | F |
| And every man that joins the ranks | G |
| Will find it is no harm | E |
| To wear Red Ribbon on his breast | H |
| To show to this rare world | I |
| There is one that joined the army | B |
| And his colors has unfurled | I |
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| Come all men in our nation | J |
| Come join this happy band | K |
| And make your homes an eden | J |
| Throughout our happy land | K |
| Your homes will then be happy | B |
| Your friends will all be kind | L |
| And in the domestic circle | M |
| True happiness will find | L |
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| Ah from this temperance army | B |
| Your feet shall never stray | N |
| Your mind will then be balmy | B |
| If you keep the shining way | N |
| Your paths are strewn with flowers | O |
| And your homes are rosy light | P |
| And God will watch the hours | O |
| For He's ever on the right | P |
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| Come all ye merry happy lads | Q |
| And listen to my rhyme | R |
| Don't be afraid to join the pledge | S |
| And let be the cursed wine | T |
| Ah lay the flowing bowl aside | U |
| And pass saloons if you can | V |
| And let the people see that you | D |
| Can be a sober man | V |
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| Go join the temperance army | B |
| And battle for the right | P |
| And fight against the enemy | B |
| With all your main and might | P |
| For it is a glorious army | B |
| This temperance reform | F |
| And the badge Red Ribbon | J |
| Will do you all no harm | E |
Julia Ann Moore
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