The Corner-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEFE GHGHIH JKJKLK MCMCMC NONOPO| I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep | A |
| When fancies come and go | B |
| To vex a man in his soothing sleep | A |
| With thoughts of awful woe | B |
| I dreamed that I was the corner man | C |
| Of a nigger minstrel show | B |
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| I cracked my jokes and the building rang | D |
| With laughter loud and long | E |
| I hushed the house as I softly sang | D |
| An old plantation song | E |
| A tale of the wicked slavery days | F |
| Of cruelty and wrong | E |
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| A small boy sat on the foremost seat | G |
| A mirthful youngster he | H |
| He beat the time with his restless feet | G |
| To each new melody | H |
| And he picked me out as the brightest star | I |
| Of the black fraternity | H |
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| Oh father he said what would we do | J |
| If the corner man should die | K |
| I never saw such a man did you | J |
| He makes the people cry | K |
| And then when he likes he makes them laugh | L |
| The old man made reply | K |
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| We each of us fill a very small space | M |
| On the great creation's plan | C |
| If a man don't keep his lead in the race | M |
| There's plenty more that can | C |
| The world can very soon fill the place | M |
| Of even a corner man | C |
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| I woke with a jump rejoiced to find | N |
| Myself at home in bed | O |
| And I framed a moral in my mind | N |
| From the words the old man said | O |
| The world will jog along just the same | P |
| When the corner men are dead | O |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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