Sitting On The Bridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEEEBD EEFGFH IIIJG KLKKKKDKKKCD A| Sitting on the bridge | A |
| Past the barracks town and ridge | A |
| At once the spirit seized us | B |
| To sing a song that pleased us | B |
| As The Fifth were much in rumour | C |
| It was Whilst I'm in the humour | C |
| Take me Paddy will you now | D |
| And a lancer soon drew nigh | E |
| And his Royal Irish eye | E |
| Said Willing faith am I | E |
| O to take you anyhow dears | B |
| To take you anyhow | D |
| - | |
| But lo dad walking by | E |
| Cried What you lightheels Fie | E |
| Is this the way you roam | F |
| And mock the sunset gleam | G |
| And he marched us straightway home | F |
| Though we said We are only daddy | H |
| Singing 'Will you take me Paddy ' | - |
| Well we never saw from then | I |
| If we sang there anywhen | I |
| The soldier dear again | I |
| Except at night in dream time | J |
| Except at night in dream | G |
| - | |
| Perhaps that soldier's fighting | K |
| In a land that's far away | L |
| Or he may be idly plighting | K |
| Some foreign hussy gay | K |
| Or perhaps his bones are whiting | K |
| In the wind to their decay | K |
| Ah does he mind him how | D |
| The girls he saw that day | K |
| On the bridge were sitting singing | K |
| At the time of curfew ringing | K |
| Take me Paddy will you now dear | C |
| Paddy will you now | D |
| - | |
| GREY'S BRIDGE | A |
Thomas Hardy
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