The Yankee Volunteers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGDHHG IDDJIKLJ MDDCMNNC OKKFPDDF KO PGDDP QRRGQSST DGKGDOOG UVWPXYZP FFFPFJJP| 'A surgeon of the United States' army says that on inquiring of | A |
| the Captain of his company he found that NINE TENTHS of the men | B |
| had enlisted on account of some female difficulty ' Morning Paper | C |
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| Ye Yankee Volunteers | D |
| It makes my bosom bleed | E |
| When I your story read | F |
| Though oft 'tis told one | G |
| So in both hemispheres | D |
| The women are untrue | H |
| And cruel in the New | H |
| As in the Old one | G |
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| What in this company | I |
| Of sixty sons of Mars | D |
| Who march 'neath Stripes and Stars | D |
| With fife and horn | J |
| Nine tenths of all we see | I |
| Along the warlike line | K |
| Had but one cause to join | L |
| This Hope Forlorn | J |
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| Deserters from the realm | M |
| Where tyrant Venus reigns | D |
| You slipp'd her wicked chains | D |
| Fled and out ran her | C |
| And now with sword and helm | M |
| Together banded are | N |
| Beneath the Stripe and Star | N |
| Embroider'd banner | C |
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| And is it so with all | O |
| The warriors ranged in line | K |
| With lace bedizen'd fine | K |
| And swords gold hilted | F |
| Yon lusty corporal | P |
| Yon color man who gripes | D |
| The flag of Stars and Stripes | D |
| Has each been jilted | F |
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| Come each man of this line | K |
| The privates strong and tall | O |
| 'The pioneers and all ' | - |
| The fifer nimble | P |
| Lieutenant and Ensign | G |
| Captain with epaulets | D |
| And Blacky there who beats | D |
| The clanging cymbal | P |
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| O cymbal beating black | Q |
| Tell us as thou canst feel | R |
| Was it some Lucy Neal | R |
| Who caused thy ruin | G |
| O nimble fifing Jack | Q |
| And drummer making din | S |
| So deftly on the skin | S |
| With thy rat tattooing | T |
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| Confess ye volunteers | D |
| Lieutenant and Ensign | G |
| And Captain of the line | K |
| As bold as Roman | G |
| Confess ye grenadiers | D |
| However strong and tall | O |
| The Conqueror of you all | O |
| Is Woman Woman | G |
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| No corselet is so proof | U |
| But through it from her bow | V |
| The shafts that she can throw | W |
| Will pierce and rankle | P |
| No champion e'er so tough | X |
| But's in the struggle thrown | Y |
| And tripp'd and trodden down | Z |
| By her slim ankle | P |
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| Thus always it was ruled | F |
| And when a woman smiled | F |
| The strong man was a child | F |
| The sage a noodle | P |
| Alcides was befool'd | F |
| And silly Samson shorn | J |
| Long long ere you were horn | J |
| Poor Yankee Doodle | P |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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