Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE FFCC| BY sunny market place and street | A |
| Wherever I go my drum I beat | A |
| And wherever I go in my coat of red | B |
| The ribbons flutter about my head | B |
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| I seek recruits for wars to come | C |
| For slaughterless wars I beat the drum | C |
| And the shilling I give to each new ally | D |
| Is hope to live and courage to die | D |
| - | |
| I know that new recruits shall come | C |
| Wherever I beat the sounding drum | C |
| Till the roar of the march by country and town | E |
| Shall shake the tottering Dagons down | E |
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| For I was objectless as they | F |
| And loitering idly day by day | F |
| But whenever I heard the recruiters come | C |
| I left my all to follow the drum | C |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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