An Evening In Dandaloo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAAC DDCEFFC DDCGHGC GGCCCCC IICHHHC JKCCCCC CCCGGGC LLCMMMC EECCCCC KKCMMMC HHCMMMCIt was while we held our races | A |
Hurdles sprints and steplechases | A |
Up in Dandaloo | B |
That a crowd of Sydney stealers | A |
Jockeys pugilists and spielers | A |
Brought some horses real heelers | A |
Came and put us through | C |
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Beat our nags and won our money | D |
Made the game by np means funny | D |
Made us rather blue | C |
When the racing was concluded | E |
Of our hard earned coin denuded | F |
Dandaloonies sat and brooded | F |
There in Dandaloo | C |
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Night came down on Johnson's shanty | D |
Where the grog was no way scanty | D |
And a tumult grew | C |
Till some wild excited person | G |
Galloped down the township cursing | H |
Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson | G |
Roll up Dandaloo | C |
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Great St Denis what commotion | G |
Like the rush of stormy ocean | G |
Fiery horsemen flew | C |
Dust and smoke and din and rattle | C |
Down the street they spurred their cattle | C |
To the war cry of the battle | C |
Wade in Dandaloo | C |
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So the boys might have their fight out | I |
Johnson blew the bar room light out | I |
Then in haste withdrew | C |
And in darkness and in doubting | H |
Raged the conflict and the shouting | H |
Give the Sydney push a clouting | H |
Go it Dandaloo | C |
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Jack Macpherson seized a bucket | J |
Every head he saw he struck it | K |
Struck in earnest too | C |
And a man from Lower Wattle | C |
Whom a shearer tried to throttle | C |
Hit out freely with a bottle | C |
There in Dandaloo | C |
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Skin and hair were flying thickly | C |
When a light was fetched and quickly | C |
Brought a fact to view | C |
On the scene of the diversion | G |
Every single solid person | G |
Come along to help Macpherson | G |
All were Dandaloo | C |
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When the list of slain was tabled | L |
Some were drunk and some disabled | L |
Still we found it true | C |
In the darkness and the smother | M |
We'd been belting one another | M |
Jack Macpherson bashed his brother | M |
There in Dandaloo | C |
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So we drank and all departed | E |
How the mobbing yarn was started | E |
No one ever knew | C |
And the stockmen tell the story | C |
Of that conflict fierce and gory | C |
How he fought for love and glory | C |
Up in Dandaloo | C |
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It's a proverb now or near it | K |
At the races you can hear it | K |
At the dog fights too | C |
Every shrieking dancing drover | M |
As the canines topple over | M |
Yells applause to Grip or Rover | M |
Give him 'Dandaloo' | C |
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And the teamster slowly toiling | H |
Through the deep black country soiling | H |
Wheels and axles too | C |
Lays the whip on Spot and Banker | M |
Rouses Tarboy with a flanker | M |
Redman Ginger Heave there Yank her | M |
Wade in Dandaloo | C |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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