The Lowlands Of Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDH GGFG DIGI JKLM BNAN JBDB| THE night that I was married | A |
| Our Captain came to me | B |
| Rise up rise up new married man | C |
| And come at once with me | B |
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| For the Lowlands of Flanders | D |
| It's there that we must fight | E |
| So look your last and buss your last | F |
| For we shall sail to night | E |
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| 'Tis all for our Counterie | G |
| And for our King we go | H |
| To the Lowlands of Flanders | D |
| Against the German foe | H |
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| The girl that weds a soldier | G |
| Must never blench for fear | G |
| I kissed my last and looked my last | F |
| Upon my lovely dear | G |
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| The Lowlands of Flanders | D |
| Their rivers run so red | I |
| But I must say Good bye my dear | G |
| My only dear I said | I |
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| For now I must go sailing | J |
| Upon the stormy main | K |
| Good bye good bye my only Love | L |
| Till I shall come again | M |
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| I put her white arms from me | B |
| Her cheek was cold as clay | N |
| The night that I was married | A |
| No longer I might stay | N |
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| Our bugles they are blowing | J |
| And I must sail the sea | B |
| For the Lowlands of Flanders | D |
| Betwixt my love and me | B |
Katharine Tynan
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