The Parting Of The Columns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB EEBB FFGB EEBB HHBB IIBB| We've rode and fought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand | A |
| Together for a year and more around this stinkin' land | A |
| Now you are goin' home again but we must see it through | B |
| We needn't tell we liked you well Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| You 'ad no special call to come and so you doubled out | C |
| And learned us how to camp and cook an' steal a horse and scout | C |
| Whatever game we fancied most you joyful played it too | B |
| And rather better on the whole Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| There isn't much we 'ave n't shared since Kruger cut and run | D |
| The same old work the same old skoff the same old dust and sun | D |
| The same old chance that laid us out or winked an' let us through | B |
| The same old Life the same old Death Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| Our blood 'as truly mixed with yours all down the Red Cross train | E |
| We've bit the same thermometer in Bloeming typhoidtein | E |
| We've 'ad the same old temp'rature the same relapses too | B |
| The same old saw backed fever chart Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| But 'twasn't merely this an' that which all the world may know | E |
| 'Twas how you talked an' looked at things which made us like you so | E |
| All independent queer an' odd but most amazin' new | B |
| My word you shook us up to rights Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| Think o' the stories round the fire the tales along the trek | F |
| O' Calgary an' Wellin'ton an' Sydney and Quebec | F |
| Of mine an' farm an' ranch an' run an' moose an' cariboo | G |
| An' parrots peckin' lambs to death Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| We've seen your 'ome by word o' mouth we've watched your rivers shine | E |
| We've 'eard your bloomin' forests blow of eucalip' and pine | E |
| Your young gay countries north and south we feel we own 'em too | B |
| For they was made by rank an' file Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| We'll never read the papers now without inquirin' first | H |
| For word from all those friendly dorps where you was born an' nursed | H |
| Why Dawson Galle an' Montreal Port Darwin Timaru | B |
| They're only just across the road Good bye good luck to you | B |
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| Good bye So long Don't lose yourselves nor us nor all kind friends | I |
| But tell the girls your side the drift we're comin' when it ends | I |
| Good bye you bloomin' Atlases You've taught us somethin' new | B |
| The world's no bigger than a kraal Good bye good luck to you | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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