The Toy Band Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBDBD EBEBBDBD FGFGBDBD EGGGBDBD| i A Song of the Great Retreat i | A |
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| Dreary lay the long road dreary lay the town | B |
| Lights out and never a glint o' moon | C |
| Weary lay the stragglers half a thousand down | B |
| Sad sighed the weary big Dragoon | B |
| Oh if I'd a drum here to make them take the road again | B |
| Oh if I'd a fife to wheedle Come boys come | D |
| You that mean to fight it out wake and take your load again | B |
| Fall in Fall in Follow the fife and drum | D |
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| Hey but here's a toy shop here's a drum for me | E |
| Penny whistles too to play the tune | B |
| Half a thousand dead men soon shall hear and see | E |
| We're a band said the weary big Dragoon | B |
| Rubadub Rubadub Wake and take the road again | B |
| Wheedle deedle deedle dee Come boys come | D |
| You that mean to fight it out wake and take your load again | B |
| Fall in Fall in Follow the fife and drum | D |
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| Cheerly goes the dark road cheerly goes the night | F |
| Cheerly goes the blood to keep the beat | G |
| Half a thousand dead men marching on to fight | F |
| With a little penny drum to lift their feet | G |
| Rubadub Rubadub Wake and take the raod again | B |
| Wheedle deedle deedle dee Come boys come | D |
| You that mean to fight it out wake and take your load again | B |
| Fall in Fall in Follow the fife and drum | D |
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| As long as there's an Englishman to ask a tale of me | E |
| As long as I can tell the tale aright | G |
| We'll not forget the penny whistle's wheedle deedle dee | G |
| And the big Dragoon a beating down the night | G |
| Rubadub Rubadub Wake and take the road again | B |
| Wheedle deedle deedle dee Come boys come | D |
| You that mean to fight it out wake and take your load again | B |
| Fall in Fall in Follow the fife and drum | D |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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