The Gay Gordons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBBD ECECEEED FCFCFFFDDargai October | A |
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Whos for the Gathering who's for the Fair | B |
Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
The bravest of the brave are at deadlock there | B |
Highlanders march by the right | C |
There are bullets by the hundred buzzing in the air | B |
There are bonny lads lying on the hillside bare | B |
But the Gordons know what the Gordons dare | B |
When they hear the pipers playing | D |
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The happiest English heart today | E |
Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
Is the heart of the Colonel hide it as he may | E |
Steady there steady on the right | C |
He sees his work and he sees his way | E |
He knows his time and the word to say | E |
And he's thinking of the tune that the Gordons play | E |
When he sets the pipers playing | D |
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Rising roaring rushing like the tide | F |
Gay goes the Gordon to a fight | C |
They're up through the fire zone not be be denied | F |
Bayonets and charge by the right | C |
Thirty bullets straight where the rest went wide | F |
And thirty lads are lying on the bare hillside | F |
But they passed in the hour of the Gordons' pride | F |
To the skirl of the pipers' playing | D |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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