The Kaiser's Bhoys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHAJJKJ L| O the Kaiser's bhoys are marching nach Paris they are going | A |
| But they've sthopped to rest a minit at the Marne and at the Meuse | B |
| And the Gordons and the Ministers are thryin' to entertain them | C |
| For they've every kind of record that the Teutons want to choose | B |
| They have battle cries that sounded for centuries in the Highlands | D |
| They have war cries fierce and stirring as the breath of Munster gales | E |
| They are shoutin' to the heavens and they're shoutin' to the Kaiser | F |
| Faugh a ballagh sons of Odin or we'll tie you up like bales | E |
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| O the Kaiser's bhoys are dramin' of a naval base at Calais | G |
| But they wakin' ivery mornin' full of sorrow and of gloom | H |
| For the little Belgian sojers cut the dykes and flood their trenches | I |
| And they find their dugouts only jist a bathtub or a tomb | H |
| But they're makin' progress backward nach Berlin they are going | A |
| With their Landsturms and their Land wehrs keepin' sthep in dim grey line | J |
| And they'll know far more of Britain and her brood of lions snarlin' | J |
| When they find themselves su Hause jist beyant | K |
| Die Wacht am Rhein | J |
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| For John E Redmond M P | L |
Thomas O'hagan
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