Kelly Of The Legion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DDDB DEDEDBDB FFFB BGBGFBFB AAAB FBFBBBAB FFFB CACAFAFB HHHB FIFIFBFB HHHB JHJHKBKB FFFB| Now Kelly was no fighter | A |
| He loved his pipe and glass | B |
| An easygoing blighter | A |
| Who lived in Montparnasse | B |
| But 'mid the tavern tattle | C |
| He heard some guinney say | B |
| When France goes forth to battle | C |
| The Legion leads the way | B |
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| The scourings of creation | D |
| Of every sin and station | D |
| The men who've known damnation | D |
| Are picked to lead the way | B |
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| Well Kelly joined the Legion | D |
| They marched him day and night | E |
| They rushed him to the region | D |
| Where largest loomed the fight | E |
| Behold your mighty mission | D |
| Your destiny said they | B |
| By glorious tradition | D |
| The Legion leads the way | B |
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| With tattered banners flying | F |
| With trail of dead and dying | F |
| On On All hell defying | F |
| The Legion sweeps the way | B |
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| With grim hard bitten faces | B |
| With jests of savage mirth | G |
| They swept into their places | B |
| The men of iron worth | G |
| Their blooded steel was flashing | F |
| They swung to face the fray | B |
| Then rushing roaring crashing | F |
| The Legion cleared the way | B |
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| The trail they blazed was gory | A |
| Few lived to tell the story | A |
| Through death they plunged to glory | A |
| But oh they cleared the way | B |
| - | |
| Now Kelly lay a dying | F |
| And dimly saw advance | B |
| With split new banners flying | F |
| The fantassins of France | B |
| Then up amid the melee | B |
| He rose from where he lay | B |
| Come on me boys says Kelly | A |
| The Layjun lades the way | B |
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| Aye while they faltered doubting | F |
| Such flames of doom were spouting | F |
| He caught them thrilled them shouting | F |
| The Layjun lades the way | B |
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| They saw him slip and stumble | C |
| Then stagger on once more | A |
| They marked him trip and tumble | C |
| A mass of grime and gore | A |
| They watched him blindly crawling | F |
| Amid hell's own affray | A |
| And calling calling calling | F |
| The Layjun lades the way | B |
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| And even while they wondered | H |
| The battle wrack was sundered | H |
| To Victory they thundered | H |
| But Kelly led the way | B |
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| Still Kelly kept agoing | F |
| Berserker like he ran | I |
| His eyes with fury glowing | F |
| A lion of a man | I |
| His rifle madly swinging | F |
| His soul athirst to slay | B |
| His slogan ringing ringing | F |
| The Layjun lades the way | B |
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| Till in a pit death baited | H |
| Where Huns with Maxims waited | H |
| He plunged and there blood sated | H |
| To death he stabbed his way | B |
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| Now Kelly was a fellow | J |
| Who simply loathed a fight | H |
| He loved a tavern mellow | J |
| Grog hot and pipe alight | H |
| I'm sure the Show appalled him | K |
| And yet without dismay | B |
| When Death and Duty called him | K |
| He up and led the way | B |
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| So in Valhalla drinking | F |
| If heroes meek and shrinking | F |
| Are suffered there I'm thinking | F |
| 'Tis Kelly leads the way | B |
Robert William Service
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