Only A Jockey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGGG EHEH CICI JKJK LMLM CLCN OCOC| Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light | A |
| Out on the track where the night shades still lurk | B |
| ere the first gleam of the sungod's returning light | A |
| Round come the racehorses early at work | B |
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| Reefing and pulling and racing so readily | C |
| Close sit the jockey boys holding them hard | D |
| Steady the stallion there canter him steadily | C |
| Don't let him gallop so much as a yard | D |
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| Fiercely he fights while the others run wide of him | E |
| Reefs at the bit that would hold him in thrall | F |
| Plunges and bucks till the boy that's astride of him | E |
| Goes to the ground with a terrible fall | F |
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| Stop him there Block him there Drive him in carefully | C |
| Lead him about till he's quiet and cool | G |
| Sound as a bell though he's blown himself fearfully | G |
| Now let us pick up this poor little fool | G |
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| Stunned Oh by Jove I'm afraid it's a case with him | E |
| Ride for the doctor keep bathing his head | H |
| Send for a cart to go down to our place with him | E |
| No use One long sigh and the little chap's dead | H |
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| Only a jockey boy foul mouthed and bad you see | C |
| Ignorant heathenish gone to his rest | I |
| Parson or Presbyter Pharisee Sadducee | C |
| What did you do for him bad was the best | I |
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| Negroes and foreigners all have a claim on you | J |
| Yearly you send your well advertised hoard | K |
| But the poor jockey boy shame on you shame on you | J |
| Feed ye My little ones what said the Lord | K |
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| Him ye held less than the outer barbarian | L |
| Left him to die in his ignorant sin | M |
| Have you no principles humanitarian | L |
| Have you no precept Go gather them in | M |
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| Knew he God's name In his brutal profanity | C |
| That name was an oath out of many but one | L |
| What did he get from our famed Christianity | C |
| Where has his soul if he had any gone | N |
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| Fourteen years old and what was he taught of it | O |
| What did he know of God's infinite Grace | C |
| Draw the dark curtain of shame o'er the thought of it | O |
| Draw the shroud over the jockey boy's face | C |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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