I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDBD AE FGHHG IJKBJJ ABAB CDLL AE| I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| Across the Irish Sea | B |
| I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| It's the only thing for me | B |
| - | |
| I've tried walking sideways | C |
| And walking to the front | D |
| But people just look at me | B |
| And say it's a publicity stunt | D |
| - | |
| I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| To prove that I love you | E |
| - | |
| An immigrant lad loved an Irish colleen | F |
| From Dublin Galway Bay | G |
| He longed for her arms | H |
| But she spurned his charms | H |
| And sailed o'er the foam away | G |
| - | |
| She left the lad by himself on his own | I |
| All alone a sorrowing | J |
| And sadly he dreamed or at least that's the | K |
| way it seemed buddy | B |
| That an angel choir did sing | J |
| An angel choir did sing | J |
| - | |
| I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| Across the Irish Sea | B |
| I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| It's the finest thing for me | B |
| - | |
| And so I've tried walking sideways | C |
| And walking to the front | D |
| But people just laughed and said | L |
| 'It's a publicity stunt' | L |
| - | |
| So I'm walking backwards for Christmas | A |
| To prove that I love you | E |
Spike Milligan
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