Bold Jack Donahoe (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHCFGIJFG KKLKKFGFGMMFN| In Dublin town I was brought up in that city of great fame | A |
| My decent friends and parents they will tell to you the same | A |
| It was for the sake of five hundred pounds I was sent across the main | B |
| For seven long years in New South Wales to wear a convict's chain | B |
| Chorus Then come my hearties we'll roam the mountains high | C |
| Together we will plunder together we will die | C |
| We'll wander over valleys and gallop over plains | D |
| For we scorn to live in slavery bound down in iron chains | D |
| I'd scarce been here twelve months or more upon the Australian shore | E |
| When I took to the highway as I'd oft times done before | E |
| There was me and Jacky Underwood and Webber and Webster too | F |
| These were the true associates of bold Jack Donahoe | G |
| Now Donahoe was taken all for a notorious crime | H |
| And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows tree so high | C |
| But when they came to Sydney gaol he left them in a stew | F |
| And when they came to call the roll they missed bold Donahoe | G |
| As Donahoe made his escape to the bush he went straightway | I |
| The people they were all afraid to travel night or day | J |
| For every week in the newspapers there was published something new | F |
| Concerning this dauntless hero the bold Jack Donahoe | G |
| As Donahoe was cruising one summer's afternoon | K |
| Little was his notion his death was near so soon | K |
| When Sergeant of the horse police discharged his | L |
| car a bine | K |
| And called aloud to Donahoe to fight or to resign | K |
| 'Resign to you you cowardly dog A thing I ne'er will do | F |
| For I'll fight this night with all my might ' cried bold Jack Donahoe | G |
| 'I'd rather roam these hills and dales like wolf or kangaroo | F |
| Than work one hour for government ' cried bold Jack Donahoe | G |
| He fought six rounds with the horse police until the fatal all | M |
| Which pierced his heart and made him start caused Donahoe to fall | M |
| And as he closed his mournful eyes he bade this world dieu | F |
| Saying 'Convicts all both large and small say prayers for Donahoe ' | N |
Anonymous Oceania
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