The New Recruit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI JKLK FMFM FLFL LNHN OPFP LQFQ FRFR| The lads were once my comrades | A |
| They stay at home content | B |
| And now's the time of cricket | C |
| They count the days well spent | B |
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| They walk with girls o' Sundays | D |
| All in their Sunday clothes | E |
| And of a Sunday evening | F |
| Go where good liquor flows | G |
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| Their way's no longer my way | H |
| For I must follow now | I |
| The drum tap and the bugle | J |
| While they're for shop and plough | I |
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| Good bye good bye kind people | J |
| And all I leave behind | K |
| To girls that used to kiss me | L |
| To one was never kind | K |
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| Good bye my girl unwilling | F |
| I shall not vex you sore | M |
| For I have taken the shilling | F |
| And I come home no more | M |
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| I heard the drums a drumming | F |
| And I ran out to see | L |
| The soldiers and the fighting | F |
| They mattered nought to me | L |
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| Good bye my girl that grieved me | L |
| The bugles whistled Come | N |
| And I stepped in the roadway | H |
| And marched beside the drum | N |
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| Lord I was proud uplifted | O |
| I held my head so high | P |
| And all the girls were doating | F |
| With love as we went by | P |
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| The boys who stood and jeered me | L |
| May live to three score ten | Q |
| While I'm cut down at morning | F |
| Among the fighting men | Q |
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| But Lord the people shouting | F |
| The glory tasted sweet | R |
| And the eyes of the girls all doating | F |
| As we marched down the street | R |
Katharine Tynan
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