Jim Carew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECCFGFGCC HAHACC IJIJCC KLKLCC JMJMCC NONOCC| Born of a thoroughbred English race | A |
| Well proportioned and closely knit | B |
| Neat slim figure and handsome face | A |
| Always ready and always fit | B |
| Hardy and wiry of limb and thew | C |
| That was the ne'er do well Jim Carew | C |
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| One of the sons of the good old land | D |
| Many a year since his like was known | E |
| Never a game but he took command | D |
| Never a sport but he held his own | E |
| Gained at his college a triple blue | C |
| Good as they make them was Jim Carew | C |
| Came to grief was it card or horse | F |
| Nobody asked and nobody cared | G |
| Ship him away to the bush of course | F |
| Ne'er do well fellows are easily spared | G |
| Only of women a sorrowing few | C |
| Wept at parting from Jim Carew | C |
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| Gentleman Jim on the cattle camp | H |
| Sitting his horse with an easy grace | A |
| But the reckless living has left its stamp | H |
| In the deep drawn lines of that handsome face | A |
| And the harder look in those eyes of blue | C |
| Prompt at a quarrel is Jim Carew | C |
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| Billy the Lasher was out for gore | I |
| Twelve stone navvy with chest of hair | J |
| When he opened out with a hungry roar | I |
| On a ten stone man it was hardly fair | J |
| But his wife was wise if his face she knew | C |
| By the time you were done with him Jim Carew | C |
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| Gentleman Jim in the stockmen's hut | K |
| Works with them toils with them side by side | L |
| As to his past well his lips are shut | K |
| Gentleman once say his mates with pride | L |
| And the wildest Cornstalk can ne'er outdo | C |
| In feats of recklessness Jim Carew | C |
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| What should he live for A dull despair | J |
| Drink is his master and drags him down | M |
| Water of Lethe that drowns all care | J |
| Gentleman Jiim has a lot to drown | M |
| And he reigns as king with a drunken crew | C |
| Sinking to misery Jim Carew | C |
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| Such is the end of the ne'er do well | N |
| Jimmy the Boozer all down at heel | O |
| But he straightens up when he's asked to tell | N |
| His name and race and a flash of steel | O |
| Still lightens up in those eyes of blue | C |
| I am or no I was Jim Carew | C |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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