Michael Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA AA BA CA AA DA AA EA FA GA AA DA HA AAII A| quot There's something in your face Michael I've seen it all the day | A |
| There's something quare that wasn't there when first ye wint away quot | A |
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| quot It's just the Army life mother the drill the left and right | A |
| That puts the stiffinin' in yer spine and locks yer jaw up tight quot | A |
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| quot There's something in your eyes Michael an' how they stare and stare | B |
| You're lookin' at me now me boy as if I wasn't there quot | A |
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| quot It's just the things I've seen mother the sights that come and come | C |
| A bit o' broken bloody pulp that used to be a chum quot | A |
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| quot There's something on your heart Michael that makes ye wake at night | A |
| And often when I hear ye moan I trimble in me fright quot | A |
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| quot It's just a man I killed mother a mother's son like me | D |
| It seems he's always hauntin' me he'll never let me be quot | A |
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| quot But maybe he was bad Michael maybe it was right | A |
| To kill the inimy you hate in fair and honest fight quot | A |
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| quot I did not hate at all mother he never did me harm | E |
| I think he was a lad like me who worked upon a farm quot | A |
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| quot And what's it all about Michael why did you have to go | F |
| A quiet peaceful lad like you and we were happy so quot | A |
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| quot It's thim that's up above mother it's thim that sits an' rules | G |
| We've got to fight the wars they make it's us as are the fools quot | A |
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| quot And what will be the end Michael and what's the use I say | A |
| Of fightin' if whoever wins it's us that's got to pay quot | A |
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| quot Oh it will be the end mother when lads like him and me | D |
| That sweat to feed the ones above decide that we'll be free quot | A |
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| quot And when will that day come Michael and when will fightin' cease | H |
| And simple folks may till their soil and live and love in peace quot | A |
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| quot It's coming soon and soon mother it's nearer every day | A |
| When only men who work and sweat will have a word to say | A |
| When all who earn their honest bread in every land and soil | I |
| Will claim the Brotherhood of Man the Comradeship of Toil | I |
| When we the Workers all demand What are we fighting for ' | - |
| Then then we'll end that stupid crime that devil's madness War quot | A |
Robert William Service
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