A Dream Of The Melbourne Cup Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCB DDBEEEB FFBGGGB HHBIIIB JJBKKKB LLBMMMB NNOPPQO BRSIIIS CCTUUUT VVBWWWB XXBYYYB ZZA2B2B2B2A2 XXGC2D2C2GBring me a quart of colonial beer | A |
And some doughy damper to make good cheer | A |
I must make a heavy dinner | B |
Heavily dine and heavily sup | C |
Of indigestible things fill up | C |
Next month they run the Melbourne Cup | C |
And I have to dream the winner | B |
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Stoke it in boys the half cooked ham | D |
The rich ragout and the charming cham | D |
I've got to mix my liquor | B |
Give me a gander's gaunt hind leg | E |
Hard and tough as a wooden peg | E |
And I'll keep it down with a hard boiled egg | E |
'Twill make me dream the quicker | B |
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Now that I'm full of fearful feed | F |
Oh but I'll dream of a winner indeed | F |
In my restless troubled slumber | B |
While the night mares race through my heated brain | G |
And their devil riders spur amain | G |
The trip for the Cup will reward my pain | G |
And I'll spot the winning number | B |
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Thousands and thousands and thousands more | H |
Like sands on the white Pacific shore | H |
The crowding people cluster | B |
For evermore is the story old | I |
While races are bought and backers are sold | I |
Drawn by the greed of the gain of gold | I |
In their thousands still they muster | B |
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And the bookies' cries grow fierce and hot | J |
I'll lay the Cup The double if not | J |
Five monkeys Little John sir | B |
Here's fives bar one I lay I lay | K |
And so they shout through the livelong day | K |
And stick to the game that is sure to pay | K |
While fools put money on sir | B |
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And now in my dream I seem to go | L |
And bet with a book that I seem to know | L |
A Hebrew money lender | B |
A million to five is the price I get | M |
Not bad but before I book the bet | M |
The horse's name I clean forget | M |
Its number and even gender | B |
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Now for the start and here they come | N |
And the hoof strokes roar like a mighty drum | N |
Beat by a hand unsteady | O |
They come like a rushing roaring flood | P |
Hurrah for the speed of the Chester blood | P |
For Acme is making the pace so good | Q |
They are some of 'em done already | O |
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But round the track she begins to tire | B |
And a mighty shout goes up Crossfire | R |
The magpie jacket's leading | S |
And Crossfire challenges fierce and bold | I |
And the lead she'll have and the lead she'll hold | I |
But at length gives way to the black and gold | I |
Which right to the front is speeding | S |
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Carry them on and keep it up | C |
A flying race is the Melbourne Cup | C |
You must race and stay to win it | T |
And old Commotion Victoria's pride | U |
Now takes the lead with his raking stride | U |
And a mighty roar goes far and wide | U |
There's only Commotion in it | T |
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But one draws out from the beaten ruck | V |
And up on the rails by a piece of luck | V |
He comes in a style that's clever | B |
It's Trident Trident Hurrah for Hales | W |
Go at 'em now while their courage fails | W |
Trident Trident for New South Wales | W |
The blue and white for ever | B |
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Under the whip with the ears flat back | X |
Under the whip though the sinews crack | X |
No sign of the base white feather | B |
Stick to it now for your breeding's sake | Y |
Stick to it now though your hearts should break | Y |
While the yells and roars make the grand stand shake | Y |
They come down the straight together | B |
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Trident slowly forges ahead | Z |
The fierce whips cut and the spurs are red | Z |
The pace is undiminished | A2 |
Now for the Panics that never fail | B2 |
But many a backer's face grows pale | B2 |
As old Commotion swings his tail | B2 |
And swerves and the Cup is finished | A2 |
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And now in my dream it all comes back | X |
I bet my coin on the Sydney crack | X |
A million I've won no question | G |
Give me my money you hook nosed hog | C2 |
Give me my money bookmaking dog | D2 |
But he disappeared in a kind of fog | C2 |
And I woke with the indigestion | G |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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