Shillin' A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDECEECCCC FDBBDGBDDBBBBGGG G| My name is O'Kelly I've heard the Revelly | A |
| From Birr to Bareilly from Leeds to Lahore | B |
| Hong Kong and Peshawur | B |
| Lucknow and Etawah | C |
| And fifty five more all endin' in quot pore quot | D |
| Black Death and his quickness the depth and the thickness | E |
| Of sorrow and sickness I've known on my way | C |
| But I'm old and I'm nervis | E |
| I'm cast from the Service | E |
| And all I deserve is a shillin' a day | C |
| Chorus Shillin' a day | C |
| Bloomin' good pay | C |
| Lucky to touch it a shillin' a day | C |
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| Oh it drives me half crazy to think of the days I | F |
| Went slap for the Ghazi my sword at my side | D |
| When we rode Hell for leather | B |
| Both squadrons together | B |
| That didn't care whether we lived or we died | D |
| But it's no use despairin' my wife must go charin' | G |
| An' me commissairin' the pay bills to better | B |
| So if me you be'old | D |
| In the wet and the cold | D |
| By the Grand Metropold won't you give me a letter | B |
| Full chorus Give 'im a letter | B |
| 'Can't do no better | B |
| Late Troop Sergeant Major an' runs with a letter | B |
| Think what 'e's been | G |
| Think what 'e's seen | G |
| Think of his pension an' | G |
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| GAWD SAVE THE QUEEN | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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