The Old Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFCCC GDCCC| There came an Old Soldier to my door | A |
| Asked a crust and asked no more | A |
| The wars had thinned him very bare | B |
| Fighting and marching everywhere | B |
| With a Fol rol dol rol di do | C |
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| With nose stuck out and cheek sunk in | D |
| A bristling beard upon his chin | D |
| Powder and bullets and wounds and drums | E |
| Had come to that Soldier as suchlike comes | E |
| With a Fol rol dol rol di do | C |
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| 'Twas sweet and fresh with buds of May | F |
| Flowers springing from every spray | F |
| And when he had supped the Old Soldier trolled | C |
| The song of youth that never grows old | C |
| Called Fol rol dol rol di do | C |
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| Most of him rags and all of him lean | G |
| And the belt round his belly drawn tightsome in | D |
| He lifted his peaked old grizzled head | C |
| And these were the very same words he said | C |
| A Fol rol dol rol di do | C |
Walter De La Mare
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