Tom Taylor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECCFFCCGGHHHIIJ JCCGGKKLLMMNN| On pay day nights neck full with beer | A |
| Old soldiers stumbling homeward here | B |
| Homeward still dazzled by the spark | C |
| Love kindled in some alley dark | C |
| Young soldiers mooning in slow thought | D |
| Start suddenly turn about are caught | E |
| By a dancing sound merry as a grig | C |
| Tom Taylor's piccolo playing jig | C |
| Never was blown from human cheeks | F |
| Music like this that calls and speaks | F |
| Till sots and lovers from one string | C |
| Dangle and dance in the same ring | C |
| Tom of your piping I've heard said | G |
| And seen that you can rouse the dead | G |
| Dead drunken men awash who lie | H |
| In stinking gutters hear your cry | H |
| I've seen them twitch draw breath grope sigh | H |
| Heave up sway stand grotesquely then | I |
| You set them dancing these dead men | I |
| They stamp and prance with sobbing breath | J |
| Victims of wine or love or death | J |
| In ragged time they jump they shake | C |
| Their heads sweating to overtake | C |
| The impetuous tune flying ahead | G |
| They flounder after with legs of lead | G |
| Now suddenly as it started play | K |
| Stops the short echo dies away | K |
| The corpses drop a senseless heap | L |
| The drunk men gaze about like sheep | L |
| Grinning the lovers sigh and stare | M |
| Up at the broad moon hanging there | M |
| While Tom five fingers to his nose | N |
| Skips off And the last bugle blows | N |
Robert Von Ranke Graves
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