Screw-guns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDBDEBBB FFBGBB HHBBBB IJIBBBB IKKBBBBB AABLBBDBDEBBBSmokin' my pipe on the mountings sniffin' the mornin' cool | A |
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule | A |
With seventy gunners be'ind me an' never a beggar forgets | B |
It's only the pick of the Army | C |
that handles the dear little pets 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns the screw guns they all love you | D |
So when we call round with a few guns | B |
o' course you will know what to do hoo hoo | D |
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender | E |
it's worse if you fights or you runs | B |
You can go where you please you can skid up the trees | B |
but you don't get away from the guns | B |
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They sends us along where the roads are but mostly we goes where they ain't | F |
We'd climb up the side of a sign board an' trust to the stick o' the paint | F |
We've chivied the Naga an' Looshai we've give the Afreedeeman fits | B |
For we fancies ourselves at two thousand | G |
we guns that are built in two bits 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns | B |
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If a man doesn't work why we drills 'im an' teaches 'im 'ow to behave | H |
If a beggar can't march why we kills 'im an' rattles 'im into 'is grave | H |
You've got to stand up to our business an' spring without snatchin' or fuss | B |
D'you say that you sweat with the field guns | B |
By God you must lather with us 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns | B |
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The eagles is screamin' around us the river's a moanin' below | I |
We're clear o' the pine an' the oak scrub | J |
we're out on the rocks an' the snow | I |
An' the wind is as thin as a whip lash what carries away to the plains | B |
The rattle an' stamp o' the lead mules | B |
the jinglety jink o' the chains 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns | B |
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There's a wheel on the Horns o' the Mornin' | I |
an' a wheel on the edge o' the Pit | K |
An' a drop into nothin' beneath you as straight as a beggar can spit | K |
With the sweat runnin' out o' your shirt sleeves | B |
an' the sun off the snow in your face | B |
An' 'arf o' the men on the drag ropes | B |
to hold the old gun in 'er place 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns | B |
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings sniffin' the mornin' cool | A |
I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule | A |
The monkey can say what our road was | B |
the wild goat 'e knows where we passed | L |
Stand easy you long eared old darlin's | B |
Out drag ropes With shrapnel Hold fast 'Tss 'Tss | B |
For you all love the screw guns the screw guns they all love you | D |
So when we take tea with a few guns | B |
o' course you will know what to do hoo hoo | D |
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender | E |
it's worse if you fights or you runs | B |
You may hide in the caves they'll be only your graves | B |
but you can't get away from the guns | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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