Sam Goes To It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE AFGF HIJK LAIA MNAN OPQP ARSR TUDU AVWV XYLY ZUA2U UB2AB2 B2B2JB2 C2D2E2F2 E2UB2U| Sam Small had retired from the Army | A |
| In the old Duke of Wellington's time | B |
| So when present unpleasantness started | C |
| He were what you might call past his prime | B |
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| He'd lived for some years in retirement | D |
| And knew nowt of war if you please | E |
| Till they blasted and bombed his allotment | D |
| And shelled the best part of his peas | E |
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| 'T were as if bugles called Sam to duty | A |
| For his musket he started to search | F |
| He found it at last in the Hen house | G |
| Buff Orpingtons had it for perch | F |
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| Straight off to the Fusilliers' depot | H |
| He went to rejoin his old troop | I |
| Where he found as they couldn't recruit Him | J |
| Until his age group was called up | K |
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| Now Sam wasn't getting no younger | L |
| Past the three score and ten years was he | A |
| And he reckoned by time they reached his age group | I |
| He'd be very near ten score and three | A |
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| So he took up the matter with Churchill | M |
| Who said I don't know what to do | N |
| Never was there a time when so many | A |
| Came asking so much from so few | N |
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| I don't want no favours Sam answered | O |
| Don't think as I'm one of that mob | P |
| All I'm asking is give me the tools lad | Q |
| And let me help finish the job | P |
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| I'll fit you in somewhere said Winnie | A |
| Old soldiers we must not discard | R |
| Then seeing he'd got his own musket | S |
| He sent him to join the Home Guard | R |
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| They gave Sam a coat with no stripes on | T |
| In spite of the service he'd seen | U |
| Which considering he'd been a King's sergeant | D |
| Kind of rankled you know what I mean | U |
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| He said I come back to the Army | A |
| Expecting my country's thanks | V |
| And the first thing I find when I get here | W |
| Is that I've been reduced to the ranks | V |
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| He found all the lads sympathetic | X |
| They agreed that 'twere a disgrace | Y |
| Except one old chap in the corner | L |
| With a nutcracker kind of a face | Y |
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| Said the old fella Who do you think you are | Z |
| The last to appear on the scene | U |
| And you start off by wanting promotion | A2 |
| Last come last served see what I mean | U |
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| Said Sam Wasn't I at Corunna | U |
| And when company commander got shot | B2 |
| Didn't I lead battalion to victory | A |
| Said the old fella No you did not | B2 |
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| I didn't said Sam quite indignent | B2 |
| Why in every fight Wellington fought | B2 |
| Wasn't I at his right hand to guard him | J |
| Said old chap You were nowt of the sort | B2 |
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| What do you know of Duke and his battles | C2 |
| Said Sam with a whithering look | D2 |
| Said the old man I ought to know something | E2 |
| Between you and me I'm the Duke | F2 |
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| And if you should look in any evening | E2 |
| You'll find them both in the canteen | U |
| Ex Commander in Chief and ex Sergeant | B2 |
| Both just Home Guards you know what I mean | U |
Marriott Edgar
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