Bobs" Of Kandahar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFF GGHHGGDD I| The body of 'Bobs' then lay in state until five o'clock when it was interred in a crypt near by those containing the bodies of Nelson and Wellington Press Despatch | A |
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| Who is he that cometh to join our mighty dead | B |
| Is it Bobs of Kandahar the Empire's armies led | B |
| Give him place O Nation great within your storied walls | C |
| Within our heart his name shall rest his ashes in St Paul's | C |
| Soldier of the Empire Bobs of Kandahar | D |
| Lay him near the hero of glorious Trafalgar | E |
| Death has ta'en the shining sword he aye in duty drew | F |
| Lay him near the Iron Duke of fateful Waterloo | F |
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| Soldier of the Empire well thy work was done | G |
| Fit thy sun had setting within sound and roar of gun | G |
| Thy soul had vision of the years fraught with danger's woe | H |
| And counsell'd arm d wisdom against a subtle foe | H |
| Now thy task has ended the splendor of thy sun | G |
| Sheds its setting glory on the greater life begun | G |
| From where the Maple stands in pride to India's torrid star | D |
| Now mourn an Empire's people for Bobs of Kandahar | D |
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| For Lady Aileen Mary Roberts | I |
Thomas O'hagan
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