Funk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCDEED FFGAAGFFDEED CCHCCHIIDEED| When your marrer bone seems 'oller | A |
| And you're glad you ain't no taller | A |
| And you're all a shakin' like you 'ad the chills | B |
| When your skin creeps like a pullet's | B |
| And you're duckin' all the bullets | B |
| And you're green as gorgonzola round the gills | B |
| When your legs seem made of jelly | C |
| And you're squeamish in the belly | C |
| And you want to turn about and do a bunk | D |
| For Gawd's sake kid don't show it | E |
| Don't let your mateys know it | E |
| You're just sufferin' from funk funk funk | D |
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| Of course there's no denyin' | F |
| That it ain't so easy tryin' | F |
| To grin and grip your rifle by the butt | G |
| When the 'ole world rips asunder | A |
| And you sees yer pal go under | A |
| As a bunch of shrapnel sprays 'im on the nut | G |
| I admit it's 'ard contrivin' | F |
| When you 'ears the shells arrivin' | F |
| To discover you're a bloomin' bit o' spunk | D |
| But my lad you've got to do it | E |
| And your God will see you through it | E |
| For wot 'E 'ates is funk funk funk | D |
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| So stand up son look gritty | C |
| And just 'um a lively ditty | C |
| And only be afraid to be afraid | H |
| Just 'old yer rifle steady | C |
| And 'ave yer bay'nit ready | C |
| For that's the way good soldier men is made | H |
| And if you 'as to die | I |
| As it sometimes 'appens why | I |
| Far better die a 'ero than a skunk | D |
| A doin' of yer bit | E |
| And so to 'ell with it | E |
| There ain't no bloomin' funk funk funk | D |
Robert Service
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