The Volunteer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGFGHIHIEE JCJCKDKDEE LMLMCDCDNNOO| Sez I My Country calls Well let it call | A |
| I grins perlitely and declines wiv thanks | B |
| Go let 'em plaster every blighted wall | A |
| 'Ere's ONE they don't stampede into the ranks | B |
| Them politicians with their greasy ways | C |
| Them empire grabbers fight for 'em No fear | D |
| I've seen this mess a comin' from the days | C |
| Of Algyserious and Aggydear | D |
| I've felt me passion rise and swell | E |
| But wot the 'ell Bill Wot the 'ell | E |
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| Sez I My Country Mine I likes their cheek | F |
| Me mud bespattered by the cars they drive | G |
| Wot makes my measly thirty bob a week | F |
| And sweats red blood to keep meself alive | G |
| Fight for the right to slave that they may spend | H |
| Them in their mansions me 'ere in my slum | I |
| No let 'em fight wot's something to defend | H |
| But me I've nothin' let the Kaiser come | I |
| And so I cusses 'ard and well | E |
| But wot the 'ell Bill Wot the 'ell | E |
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| Sez I If they would do the decent thing | J |
| And shield the missis and the little 'uns | C |
| Why even I might shout God save the King | J |
| And face the chances of them 'ungry guns | C |
| But we've got three another on the way | K |
| It's that wot makes me snarl and set me jor | D |
| The wife and nippers wot of 'em I say | K |
| If I gets knocked out in this blasted war | D |
| Gets proper busted by a shell | E |
| But wot the 'ell Bill Wot the 'ell | E |
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| Ay wot the 'ell's the use of all this talk | L |
| To day some boys in blue was passin' me | M |
| And some of 'em they 'ad no legs to walk | L |
| And some of 'em they 'ad no eyes to see | M |
| And well I couldn't look 'em in the face | C |
| And so I'm goin' goin' to declare | D |
| I'm under forty one and take me place | C |
| To face the music with the bunch out there | D |
| A fool you say Maybe you're right | N |
| I'll 'ave no peace unless I fight | N |
| I've ceased to think I only know | O |
| I've gotta go Bill gotta go | O |
Robert William Service
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