Lines In Praise Of Tommy Atkins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF AAGG HHCC IJKL HHMM NNOO PQRR OOCB HHAA| Success to Tommy Atkins he's a very brave man | A |
| And to deny it there's few people can | A |
| And to face his foreign foes he's never afraid | B |
| Therefore he's not a beggar as Rudyard Kipling has said | C |
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| No he's paid by our Government and is worthy of his hire | D |
| And from our shores in time of war he makes our foes retire | E |
| He doesn't need to beg no nothing so low | F |
| No he considers it more honourable to face a foreign foe | F |
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| No he's not a beggar he's a more useful man | A |
| And as Shakespeare has said his life's but a span | A |
| And at the cannon's mouth he seeks for reputation | G |
| He doesn't go from door to door seeking a donation | G |
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| Oh think of Tommy Atkins when from home far away | H |
| Lying on the battlefield earth's cold clay | H |
| And a stone or his knapsack pillowing his head | C |
| And his comrades lying near by him wounded and dead | C |
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| And while lying there poor fellow he thinks of his wife at home | I |
| And his heart bleeds at the thought and he does moan | J |
| And down his cheek flows many a silent tear | K |
| When he thinks of his friends and children dear | L |
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| Kind Christians think of him when far far away | H |
| Fighting for his Queen and Country without dismay | H |
| May God protect him wherever he goes | M |
| And give him strength to conqner his foes | M |
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| To call a soldier a beggar is a very degrading name | N |
| And in my opinion it's a very great shame | N |
| And the man that calls him a beggar is not the soldier's friend | O |
| And no sensible soldier should on him depend | O |
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| A soldier is a man that ought to be respected | P |
| And by his country shouldn't be neglected | Q |
| For he fights our foreign foes and in danger of his life | R |
| Leaving behind him his relatives and his dear wife | R |
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| Then hurrah for Tommy Atkins he's the people's friend | O |
| Because when foreign foes assail us he does us defend | O |
| He is not a beggar as Rudyard Kipling has said | C |
| No he doesn't need to beg he lives by his trade | B |
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| And in conclusion I will say | H |
| Don't forget his wife and children when he's far away | H |
| But try and help them all you can | A |
| For remember Tommy Atkins is a very useful man | A |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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