Boots Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EDCD FCGD HICD JFCD KLCD MNCD OPCD| INFANTRY COLUMNS | A |
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| We're foot slog slog slog sloggin' over Africa | B |
| Foot foot foot foot sloggin' over Africa | B |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| There's no discharge in the war | D |
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| Seven six eleven five nine an' tw enty mile to day | E |
| Four eleven seventeen thirty two the day before | D |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| There's no discharge in the war | D |
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| Don't don't don't don't look at what's in front of you | F |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| Men men men men men go mad with watchin' em | G |
| An' there's no discharge in the war | D |
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| Try try try try to think o' something different | H |
| Oh my God keep me from goin' lunatic | I |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| There's no discharge in the war | D |
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| Count count count count the bullets in the bandoliers | J |
| If your eyes drop they will get atop o' you | F |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| There's no discharge in the war | D |
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| We can stick out 'unger thirst an' weariness | K |
| But not not not not the chronic sight of 'em | L |
| Boot boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| An' there's no discharge in the war | D |
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| 'Taint so bad by day because o' company | M |
| But night brings long strings o' forty thousand million | N |
| Boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| There's no discharge in the war | D |
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| I 'ave marched six weeks in 'Ell an' certify | O |
| It is not fire devils dark or anything | P |
| But boots boots boots boots movin' up an' down again | C |
| An' there's no discharge in the war | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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