The Drummer Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEBBAA FFCCGGAA| You never know when war may come | A |
| And that is why I keep a drum | A |
| For if all sudden in the night | B |
| From east or west came battle fright | B |
| And you were sound asleep in bed | C |
| And very soon to join the dead | C |
| You then would gladly wish my drum | A |
| Would warn you that the war had come | A |
| - | |
| So that is why on afternoons | D |
| I tell the neighborhood my tunes | D |
| Sometimes behind a fortress bench | E |
| Or where the hedges make a trench | E |
| I beat the drum with all my might | B |
| While people look with awful fright | B |
| Just as they would if war had come | A |
| And heard the warning of my drum | A |
| - | |
| They must be thankful I am sure | F |
| Because they now may feel secure | F |
| And rest so safe and sound in bed | C |
| Without wild dreams of fearful dread | C |
| For now they hear me all the day | G |
| As round the yard I march and play | G |
| To let them know if war should come | A |
| They'll get the warning of my drum | A |
Michael Earls
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