Wilful Missing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC BDBC BCBC BCBC BCBC BCBC BCBC BCBC BCBCB| Deserters | A |
| There is a world outside the one you know | B |
| To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare | C |
| It is the place where quot wilful missings quot go | B |
| As we can testify for we are there | C |
| - | |
| You may 'ave read a bullet laid us low | B |
| That we was gathered in quot with reverent care quot | D |
| And buried proper But it was not so | B |
| As we can testify for we are there | C |
| - | |
| They can't be certain faces alter so | B |
| After the old aasvogel 'ad 'is share | C |
| The uniform's the mark by which they go | B |
| And ain't it odd the one we best can spare | C |
| - | |
| We might 'ave seen our chance to cut the show | B |
| Name number record an 'begin elsewhere | C |
| Leaven'' some not too late lamented foe | B |
| One funeral private British for 'is share | C |
| - | |
| We may 'ave took it yonder in the Low | B |
| Bush veldt that sends men stragglin' 'unaware | C |
| Among the Kaffirs till their columns go | B |
| An 'they are left past call or count or care | C |
| - | |
| We might 'ave been your lovers long ago | B |
| 'Usbands or children comfort or despair | C |
| Our death an' burial settles all we owe | B |
| An' why we done it is our own affair | C |
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| Marry again and we will not say no | B |
| Nor come to barstardise the kids you bear | C |
| Wait on in 'ope you've all your life below | B |
| Before you'll ever 'ear us on the stair | C |
| - | |
| There is no need to give our reasons though | B |
| Gawd knows we all 'ad reasons which were fair | C |
| But other people might not judge 'em so | B |
| And now it doesn't matter what they were | C |
| - | |
| What man can weigh or size another's woe | B |
| There are some things too bitter 'ard to bear | C |
| Suffice it we 'ave finished Domino | B |
| As we can testify for we are there | C |
| In the side world where quot wilful missings quot go | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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