A Little Bit Of Blue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDEAAE FGCG HIHI JKJK LMLM HNHN CDDEAAE| When the waves rise high and higher as they toss about together | A |
| And the March winds loosed and angry cut your chilly heart in two | B |
| Here are eighteen gallant gentlemen who come to face the weather | A |
| All for valour and for honour and a little bit of blue | B |
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| Chorus | C |
| Oh get hold of it and shove it | D |
| It is labour but you love it | D |
| Let your stroke be long and mighty keep your body on the swing | E |
| While your pulses dance a measure | A |
| Full of pride and full of pleasure | A |
| And the boat flies free and joyous like a swallow on the wing | E |
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| Isis blessed her noble youngsters as they left her Father Camus | F |
| Sped his youths to fame and Putney from his grey and ancient Courts | G |
| Keep they said the old traditions and we know you will not shame us | C |
| When you try the stormy tideway in your zephyrs and your shorts | G |
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| For it's toil and tribulation till your roughnesses are polished | H |
| And it's bitterness and sorrow till the work of oars is done | I |
| But it's high delight and triumph when your faults are all abolished | H |
| With yourself and seven brothers firmly welded into one | I |
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| So they stood the weary trial and the people poured to greet them | J |
| Filled a cup with praise and welcome it was theirs to take and quaff | K |
| And they ranged their ships alongside and the umpire came to meet them | J |
| And they stripped themselves and waited till his pistol sent them off | K |
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| With a dash and spurt and rally with a swing and drive and rattle | L |
| Both the boats went flashing faster as they cleft the swelling stream | M |
| And the old familiar places scenes of many a sacred battle | L |
| Just were seen for half a moment and went by them in a dream | M |
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| But at last the flag has fallen and the splendid fight is finished | H |
| And the victory is blazoned on the record roll of Fame | N |
| They are spent and worn and broken but their soul is undiminished | H |
| There are winners now and losers but their glory is the same | N |
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| Chorus | C |
| Oh get hold of it and shove it | D |
| It is labour but you love it | D |
| Let your stroke be long and mighty keep your body on the swing | E |
| While your pulses dance a measure | A |
| Full of pride and full of pleasure | A |
| And the boat flies free and joyous like a swallow on the wing | E |
R. C. Lehmann
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