Shakespeare On The Turf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C D EEE F FGF FEHI FJEF K EL EM E NMNNM E FOEEF E D FEE F PEFF E FEF MQFRSFTEECUF D E E ERK MNM C F KEQ UFF EFV UK E EFFK EE M| An Unpublished Drama | A |
| A Winter's Turf Tale | B |
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| As the public have stood uncomplainingly the publication of a portrait of the Supreme Being they may accept the following drama as the work of William Shakespeare | C |
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| SCENE I | D |
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| SCENE The saddling paddock at a racecourse | E |
| Citizens Battlers Toffs Trainers Flappers Satyrs Bookmakers and Turf Experts | E |
| Enter Shortinbras a Trainer and two Punters | E |
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| FIRST PUNTER Good Shortinbras what thinkest thou of the Fav'rite | F |
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| SHORTINBRAS aside This poltroon would not venture a ducat | F |
| on David to beat a dead donkey a dull and muddy mettled rascal | G |
| To Punter Aye marry Sir I think well of the Favourite | F |
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| PUNTER And yet I have a billiard marker's word | F |
| That in this race to day they back Golumpus | E |
| And when they bet they tell me they will knock | H |
| The Favourite for a string of German Sausage | I |
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| SHORTINBRAS Aye marry they would tell thee I've no doubt | F |
| It is the way of owners that they tell | J |
| To billiard markers and the men on trams | E |
| Just when they mean to bet Go back it back it | F |
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| Tries to shuffle off but Punter detains him | K |
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| PUNTER Nay good Shortinbras what thinkest thou of Golumpus | E |
| Was it not dead last week | L |
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| SHORTINBRAS Marry sir I think well of Golumpus | E |
| 'Tis safer to speak well of the dead betimes they rise again | M |
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| Sings | E |
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| They pulled him barefaced in the mile | N |
| Hey Nonny Nonny | M |
| The Stipes were watching them all the while | N |
| And the losers swear but the winners smile | N |
| Hey Nonny Nonny | M |
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| Exit Shortinbras | E |
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| SECOND RUNTER A scurvy knave What meant he by his prate | F |
| Of Fav'rite and outsider and the like | O |
| Forsooth he told us nothing Follow him close | E |
| Give him good watch I pray you till we see | E |
| Just what he does his dough on Follow fast | F |
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| Exeunt Punters | E |
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| SCENE II | D |
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| The same Bookmakers call Seven to Four on the Field | F |
| Three to One Bar One Ten to One Golumpus | E |
| Enter Two Heads | E |
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| FIRST HEAD How goes the battle Did thou catch the last | F |
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| SECOND HEAD Aye marry did I and the one before | P |
| But this has got me beat The Favourite drifts | E |
| And not a single wager has been laid | F |
| About Golumpus Thinkest thou that both are dead | F |
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| Re enter Punters | E |
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| PUNTER Good morrow Gentlemen I have it cold | F |
| Straight from the owner that Golumpus goes | E |
| Eyes out to win today | F |
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| FIRST HEAD Prate not to me of owners Hast thou seen | M |
| The good red gold Go in The Jockey's Punter | Q |
| Has he put up the stuff or does he wait | F |
| To get a better price Owner say'st thou | R |
| The owner does the paying and the talk | S |
| Hears the tale afterwards when it gets beat | F |
| And sucks it in as hungry babes suck milk | T |
| Look you how ride the books in motor cars | E |
| While owners go on foot or ride in trams | E |
| Crushed with the vulgar herd and doomed to hear | C |
| From mouths of striplings that their horse was stiff | U |
| When they themselves are broke from backing it | F |
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| SCENE III | D |
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| Enter an Owner and a Jockey | E |
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| OWNER 'Tis a good horse A passing good horse | E |
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| JOCKEY I rose him yesternoon it seemed to me | E |
| That in good truth a fairly speedy cow | R |
| Might well outrun him | K |
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| OWNER Thou froward varlet must I say again | M |
| That on the Woop Woop course he ran a mile | N |
| In less than forty with his irons on | M |
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| JOCKEY Then thou should'st bring the Woop Woop course down here | C |
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| OWNER Thou pestilential scurvy Knave Go to | F |
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| Strikes him | K |
| Alarms and excursions The race is run and Shortinbras enters | E |
| leading in the winner | Q |
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| FIRST PUNTER And thou hast trained the winner thou thyself | U |
| Thou complicated liar Didst not say | F |
| To back Golumpus or the Favourite | F |
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| SHORTINBRAS Get work For all I ever had of thee | E |
| My children were unfed my wife unclothed | F |
| And I myself condemned to menial toil | V |
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| PUNTER The man who keeps a winner to himself | U |
| Deserves but death Kills him | K |
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| Enter defeated Owner and Jockey | E |
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| OWNER Thou whoreson Knave thou went into a trance | E |
| Soon as the barrier lifted and knew naught | F |
| Of what occurred until they neared the post | F |
| Kills him | K |
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| Curtain falls on ensemble of punters bookmakers | E |
| heads and surviving jockeys and trainers | E |
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| CURTAIN | M |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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