Bayonet Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDBCEFE GHGGIHIHHG GGJJJKKJLLFFMNONMPGG QPQFRGGGGGGDB STUU GGVVBWWWW WBXUXAYZ A2JA2A2CYBB GGBGB2GGGHGGIHIHHG C2DD2D2ECDCE2CD2GGGD 2F2F2G2D2C2CH2H2CD2DFire away fire away boys must have their play | A |
There'll be hard work yet | B |
Before sunset | B |
But what of the day when the boys have had their play | A |
When the boys have played why then | C |
Aha | D |
'Twill be time for the men | C |
Hurrah | D |
And the bayonet | B |
But men as we've nothing to do till then | C |
And the match is on out there | E |
I think you and I may as well stand by | F |
And see that the game goes fair | E |
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No drummer no tambourettes | G |
The earth is our drum wherever we come | H |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
Where's the drumstick that ever could beat | I |
Where's the drumhead that ever could drum | H |
Like the mighty foot of our thousand feet | I |
And the earth that is dumb till we come and come | H |
Come and come and come and come | H |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
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'Love your enemy' yes 'tis the Briton's grace | G |
I love him so well that I'd see his face | G |
Yon little ninepins all in a row | J |
How can I tell if I love 'em or no | J |
So hurrah lads up we go | J |
Here's to our nearer meeting | K |
And if when we come within greeting | K |
I see my own special foe | J |
I'll leave him to Tom or John | L |
And find my work further on | L |
And perhaps he and I will shake hands by and bye | F |
Side by side as we lie | F |
To night on the gory slope of the hill | M |
As the dew tears drop from the sky above | N |
At the silent thought | O |
Of the friends whom we love | N |
Better still | M |
And wait for the surgeon's cart | P |
That's always coming and never comes | G |
And when a couple of bearers pass | G |
I'll give him my turn | Q |
Tho' the flesh wounds smart | P |
And the bone wounds burn | Q |
And the life tide's running dry | F |
Because he's my enemy | R |
But that's when I've spiked up John's and Tom's | G |
And Rosie's and Poll's and Marjorie's | G |
And little Jack's and todlin May's | G |
And the victory's won and the bloody day's | G |
Done and of flesh that is grass | G |
Along the braes the bloody hay's | G |
Made that is made hurrah | D |
With the bayonet | B |
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For till you show me the Sacred Word | S |
I'm for Peter and his good sword | T |
Only I hope if we'd drilled him here | U |
He'd not have missed the head for the ear | U |
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Gods I'd give a Life's delights | G |
To have been there that night of nights | G |
With ten such men as I see here now | V |
When they spat their sin on the Sinless Brow | V |
And struck Him without let | B |
And have heard the ten steels clash at my call | W |
And seen the ten steels flash in the hall | W |
As we did them all up to the wall | W |
High Priest low Priest Romans and all | W |
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Great and small up to the wall | W |
Up to the wall with the bayonet | B |
I would keep or lose my right hand | X |
By the love of every man here | U |
For the dear native land | X |
There is not a man here this day | A |
Of whom come what come can | Y |
I could speak with an accent of scorn | Z |
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Who feels his courage grow colder | A2 |
At sight of the foe | J |
Whose conscience is bolder | A2 |
Because we are shoulder to shoulder | A2 |
Who goes up the hill because we are men | C |
And not because he is man | Y |
He shall serve his country yet | B |
But not with the bayonet | B |
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Well done I like your eyes | G |
Neither sunrise | G |
Nor sunset | B |
Well done I know the grips | G |
That will tell to barrel and stock | B2 |
What the beard hides on the lips | G |
No strain on the rein no tug on the slips | G |
No drummer no tambourettes | G |
The earth is our drum wherever we come | H |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
Where's the drumstick that ever could beat | I |
Where's the drumhead that ever could drum | H |
Like the mighty foot of our thousand feet | I |
And the earth that is dumb till we come and come | H |
Till we come and come and come and come | H |
Bayonets bayonets bayonets bayonets | G |
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You are not dogs but Lions and who | C2 |
Holds Lions in leash Hurrah | D |
My Lions with just such a pack | D2 |
I'd hunt down the gods of Olympus Alack | D2 |
This mount is all an Olympus Up there | E |
You see the bird popping goddikins ten | C |
To one I'll warrant you bah | D |
What then | C |
Who cares while theirs is the ten to the one | E2 |
And ours is the one to the ten | C |
Were't one to twenty which of us would shirk | D2 |
The odds or the glory You see | G |
How the land lies | G |
This fox cover up the long rise | G |
Then fifty paces of open and then the breast work | D2 |
Scatter the pack in cover make them cast wide | F2 |
From wood side to wood side | F2 |
Go in like hounds and come out | G2 |
At the top like men and lions full swing | D2 |
Up the wood but when it's grey blue | C2 |
Overhead come together like men | C |
A halt for breath | H2 |
Slow time and still as death | H2 |
To the covert edge and then | C |
The rush and the roar and the spring | D2 |
Hunt's up my Lions hie in hurrah | D |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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