My Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE IJIJKBKB LMLMNEOE| Of all the boys with whom I fought | A |
| In Africa and Sicily | B |
| Bill was the bravest of the lot | C |
| In our dare devil Company | B |
| That lad would rather die than yield | D |
| His gore he glorified to spill | E |
| And so in every battlefield | D |
| A hero in my eyes was Bill | E |
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| Then when the bloody war was done | F |
| He moseyed back to our home town | G |
| And there a loving mother's son | F |
| Like other kids he settled down | G |
| His old girl seemed a shade straight laced | H |
| For when I called my buddy Bill | E |
| She looked at me with some distaste | H |
| Suggesting that his name was Will | E |
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| And then he had to get engaged | I |
| And took unto himself a wife | J |
| And so inevitably caged | I |
| He settled down to wedded life | J |
| He introduced me to his Missis | K |
| But oh I thought her rather silly | B |
| For in between their frequent kisses | K |
| She called my hard boiled here Willie | B |
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| Now he has long forgot the War | L |
| The which he did a lot to win | M |
| And feeling full of ginger for | L |
| He's happy Pop of cherubs twin | M |
| Yet with his air Don't care a damn | N |
| On Main Street he's my hero still | E |
| As proud he wheels a double pram | O |
| What guy has got the guts of Bill | E |
Robert William Service
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