The Widow's Party Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBBBBD EBECBBBB FBGCBBBB HBHCIIIB ABBCJJJB KBKCBBBBD| quot Where have you been this while away | A |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay | A |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| They called us out of the barrack yard | B |
| To Gawd knows where from Gosport Hard | B |
| And you can't refuse when you get the card | B |
| And the Widow gives the party | B |
| Bugle Ta rara ra ra rara | D |
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| quot What did you get to eat and drink | E |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| Standing water as thick as ink | E |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| A bit o' beef that were three year stored | B |
| A bit o' mutton as tough as a board | B |
| And a fowl we killed with a sergeant's sword | B |
| When the Widow give the party | B |
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| quot What did you do for knives and forks | F |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| We carries 'em with us wherever we walks | G |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| And some was sliced and some was halved | B |
| And some was crimped and some was carved | B |
| And some was gutted and some was starved | B |
| When the Widow give the party | B |
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| quot What ha' you done with half your mess | H |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| They couldn't do more and they wouldn't do less | H |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| They ate their whack and they drank their fill | I |
| And I think the rations has made them ill | I |
| For half my comp'ny's lying still | I |
| Where the Widow give the party | B |
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| quot How did you get away away | A |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| On the broad o' my back at the end o' the day | B |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| I comed away like a bleedin' toff | J |
| For I got four niggers to carry me off | J |
| As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough | J |
| When the Widow give the party | B |
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| quot What was the end of all the show | K |
| Johnnie Johnnie quot | B |
| Ask my Colonel for I don't know | K |
| Johnnie my Johnnie aha | C |
| We broke a King and we built a road | B |
| A court house stands where the reg'ment goed | B |
| And the river's clean where the raw blood flowed | B |
| When the Widow give the party | B |
| Bugle Ta rara ra ra rara | D |
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