A Song Of Winter Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEDDD FGFGEHIIHHH JKJKELEELLL LHMHEDEEHLDIt isn't the foe that we fear | A |
It isn't the bullets that whine | B |
It isn't the business career | A |
Of a shell or the bust of a mine | B |
It isn't the snipers who seek | C |
To nip our young hopes in the bud | D |
No it isn't the guns | E |
And it isn't the Huns | E |
It's the MUD | D |
MUD | D |
MUD | D |
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It isn't the melee we mind | F |
That often is rather good fun | G |
It isn't the shrapnel we find | F |
Obtrusive when rained by the ton | G |
It isn't the bounce of the bombs | E |
That gives us a positive pain | H |
It's the strafing we get | I |
When the weather is wet | I |
It's the RAIN | H |
RAIN | H |
RAIN | H |
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It isn't because we lack grit | J |
We shrink from the horrors of war | K |
We don't mind the battle a bit | J |
In fact that is what we are for | K |
It isn't the rum jars and things | E |
Make us wish we were back in the fold | L |
It's the fingers that freeze | E |
In the boreal breeze | E |
It's the COLD | L |
COLD | L |
COLD | L |
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Oh the rain the mud and the cold | L |
The cold the mud and the rain | H |
With weather at zero it's hard for a hero | M |
From language that's rude to refrain | H |
With porridgy muck to the knees | E |
With sky that's a pouring a flood | D |
Sure the worst of our foes | E |
Are the pains and the woes | E |
Of the RAIN | H |
THE COLD | L |
AND THE MUD | D |
Robert Service
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