Victory Stuff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADA EFEFGHGH GIGIJKJL MNMNOCOC| What d'ye think lad what d'ye think | A |
| As the roaring crowds go by | B |
| As the banners flare and the brasses blare | C |
| And the great guns rend the sky | B |
| As the women laugh like they'd all gone mad | D |
| And the champagne glasses clink | A |
| Oh you're grippin' me hand so tightly lad | D |
| I'm a wonderin' what d'ye think | A |
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| D'ye think o' the boys we used to know | E |
| And how they'd have topped the fun | F |
| Tom and Charlie and Jack and Joe | E |
| Gone now every one | F |
| How they'd have cheered as the joy bells chime | G |
| And they grabbed each girl for a kiss | H |
| And now they're rottin' in Flanders slime | G |
| And they gave their lives for this | H |
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| Or else d'ye think of the many a time | G |
| We wished we too was dead | I |
| Up to our knees in the freezin' grime | G |
| With the fires of hell overhead | I |
| When the youth and the strength of us sapped away | J |
| And we cursed in our rage and pain | K |
| And yet we haven't a word to say | J |
| We're glad We'd do it again | L |
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| I'm scared that they pity us Come old boy | M |
| Let's leave them their flags and their fuss | N |
| We'd surely be hatin' to spoil their joy | M |
| With the sight of such wrecks as us | N |
| Let's slip away quietly you and me | O |
| And we'll talk of our chums out there | C |
| You with your eyes that'll never see | O |
| Me that's wheeled in a chair | C |
Robert William Service
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