Old Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCB DDDB| WE wander now who marched before | A |
| Hawking our bran from door to door | A |
| While other men from the mill take their flour | B |
| So it is to be an Old Soldier | B |
| - | |
| Old bare and sore we look on the hound | C |
| Turning upon the stiff frozen ground | C |
| Nosing the mould with the night around | C |
| So it is to be an Old Soldier | B |
| - | |
| And we who once rang out like a bell | D |
| Have nothing now to show or to sell | D |
| Old bones to carry old stories to tell | D |
| So it is to be an Old Soldier | B |
Padraic Colum
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