Down Among The Dead Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEC FFGGCDEC HHIICDEC JJKKCDEC LLBBCDEC GGMMCDECCome comrades come your glasses clink | A |
Up with your hands a health to drink | A |
The health of all that workers be | B |
In every land on every sea | B |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
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Well done now drink another toast | F |
And pledge the gath'ring of the host | F |
The people armed in brain and hand | G |
To claim their rights in every land | G |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
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There's liquor left come let's be kind | H |
And drink the rich a better mind | H |
That when we knock upon the door | I |
They may be off and say no more | I |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
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Now comrades let the glass blush red | J |
Drink we the unforgotten dead | J |
That did their deeds and went away | K |
Before the bright sun brought the day | K |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
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The Day Ah friends late grows the night | L |
Drink to the glimmering spark of light | L |
The herald of the joy to be | B |
The battle torch of thee and me | B |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
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Take yet another cup in hand | G |
And drink in hope our little band | G |
Drink strife in hope while lasteth breath | M |
And brotherhood in life and death | M |
And he that will this health deny | C |
Down among the dead men down among the dead men | D |
Down down down down | E |
Down among the dead men let him lie | C |
William Morris
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