Carry On Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIIGHJG KLMLNLAL GOPPGOQG RHHHSLDL GTCUGTVG| It's easy to fight when everything's right | A |
| And you're mad with the thrill and the glory | B |
| It's easy to cheer when victory's near | C |
| And wallow in fields that are gory | B |
| It's a different song when everything's wrong | D |
| When you're feeling infernally mortal | E |
| When it's ten against one and hope there is none | F |
| Buck up little soldier and chortle | E |
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| Carry on Carry on | G |
| There isn't much punch in your blow | H |
| You're glaring and staring and hitting out blind | I |
| You're muddy and bloody but never you mind | I |
| Carry on Carry on | G |
| You haven't the ghost of a show | H |
| It's looking like death but while you've a breath | J |
| Carry on my son Carry on | G |
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| And so in the strife of the battle of life | K |
| It's easy to fight when you're winning | L |
| It's easy to slave and starve and be brave | M |
| When the dawn of success is beginning | L |
| But the man who can meet despair and defeat | N |
| With a cheer there's the man of God's choosing | L |
| The man who can fight to Heaven's own height | A |
| Is the man who can fight when he's losing | L |
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| Carry on Carry on | G |
| Things never were looming so black | O |
| But show that you haven't a cowardly streak | P |
| And though you're unlucky you never are weak | P |
| Carry on Carry on | G |
| Brace up for another attack | O |
| It's looking like hell but you never can tell | Q |
| Carry on old man Carry on | G |
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| There are some who drift out in the deserts of doubt | R |
| And some who in brutishness wallow | H |
| There are others I know who in piety go | H |
| Because of a Heaven to follow | H |
| But to labour with zest and to give of your best | S |
| For the sweetness and joy of the giving | L |
| To help folks along with a hand and a song | D |
| Why there's the real sunshine of living | L |
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| Carry on Carry on | G |
| Fight the good fight and true | T |
| Believe in your mission greet life with a cheer | C |
| There's big work to do and that's why you are here | U |
| Carry on Carry on | G |
| Let the world be the better for you | T |
| And at last when you die let this be your cry | V |
| Carry on my soul Carry on | G |
Robert Service
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