The Battered Brigade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDBFBFGDGDHIHI JDJDEKEKLDLD| The mark of a stake in the shoulder | A |
| The brand of a wall on the knee | B |
| Are scars to the careless beholder | A |
| And blemishes So it may be | B |
| But every such blemish endorses | C |
| The pluck of a steed unafraid | D |
| And the heart of a lover of horses | E |
| Goes out to the Battered Brigade | D |
| Their knocks have been gathered in duty | B |
| Their scars in the front of the fray | F |
| It isn't your cleanest legged beauty | B |
| That's first at the end of the day | F |
| When five foot of timber before us | G |
| Has half of the pretty ones stayed | D |
| If you want to catch up to the chorus | G |
| Come on with the Battered Brigade | D |
| Turned out in the finest of fettle | H |
| 'Tis sometimes the soundest that fails | I |
| And would rather hear hoofs on the metal | H |
| Than follow the rattle of rails | I |
| But out on the grass with hounds racing | J |
| And fences as big as they're made | D |
| The cream of the gay steeple chasing | J |
| Is left to the Battered Brigade | D |
| Their line is the line of the foxes | E |
| Their pace is the pace of the pack | K |
| Though to morrow they stand in their boxes | E |
| As stiff as the props of a stack | K |
| And I 'll lay you my cheque at the banker's | L |
| They're forward next week undismayed | D |
| Good luck to the blemished front rankers | L |
| Hats off to the Battered Brigade | D |
William Henry Ogilvie
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