the last two lines rhyme to create closure, but then the first and third lines also rhyme - why!? wouldn't it be the first two lines to keep up a scheme!? is it just coincidence!?
here is the poem for reference:
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death!.
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour!. 'Poor young chap,'
I'd say - 'I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrape!.'
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I’d toddle safely home and die – in bed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com