Teeth-setting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHHEE IIJJKKEE| When the thunder shaking German hosts are marching over France | A |
| Lo the glinting of the bayonet and the quiver of the lance | A |
| When a rowdy rampant KAISER stout and mad and middle aged | B |
| Strips his breast of British Orders just to prove that he's enraged | B |
| When with fire and shot and pillage | C |
| He destroys each town and village | D |
| When the world is black with warfare then there's one thing you must do | E |
| Set your teeth like steel my hearties and sit tight and see it through | E |
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| Oh it's heavy work is fighting but our soldiers do it well | F |
| Lo the booming of the batteries the clatter of the shell | F |
| And it's weary work retiring but they kept a dauntless front | G |
| All our company of heroes who have borne the dreadful brunt | G |
| They can meet the foe and beat him | H |
| They can scatter and defeat him | H |
| For they learnt a steady lesson and they taught a lesson too | E |
| Having set their teeth in earnest and sat tight and seen it through | E |
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| Then their brothers trooped to join them taking danger for a bride | I |
| Not in insolence and malice but in honour and in pride | I |
| Caring nought to be recorded on the muster roll of fame | J |
| So they struck a blow for Britain and the glory of her name | J |
| Toil and wounds could but delight them | K |
| Death itself could not affright them | K |
| Who went out to fight for freedom and the red and white and blue | E |
| While they set their teeth as firm as flint and vowed to see it through | E |
R. C. Lehmann
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