The Russian Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCDEFECGHGIJGK| Then up there comes a veteran | A |
| With medals on his breast | B |
| He scarcely lives but yet contrives | C |
| To drink with all the rest | B |
| 'A lucky man am I ' he cries | C |
| And thus to prove the fact he tries | C |
| 'In what consists of a soldier's luck | D |
| Pray listen while I tell | E |
| In twenty fights or more I've been | F |
| And yet I never fell | E |
| And what is more in peaceful times | C |
| Full meal I never knew | G |
| Yet all the same I have contrived | H |
| Not to give Death his due | G |
| Again for sins both great and small | I |
| Full many a time they've me | J |
| With canes unmercifully flogged | G |
| Yet I'm alive you see ' | K |
Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov
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