When Dacey Rode The Mule Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEB FGFGHBHB IBIB JAJAKBKB BBLB MNMNOPOP JBJB QRQRSTSU HBHB'Twas to a small up country town | A |
When we were boys at school | B |
There came a circus with a clown | A |
Likewise a bucking mule | B |
The clown announced a scheme they had | C |
Spectators for to bring | D |
They'd give a crown to any lad | C |
Who's ride him round the ring | D |
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And Gentle reader do not scoff | E |
Nor think a man a fool | B |
To buck a porous plaster off | E |
Was pastime to that mule | B |
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The boys got on he bucked like sin | F |
He threw them in the dirt | G |
What time the clown would raise a grin | F |
By asking Are you hurt | G |
But Johnny Dacey came one night | H |
The crack of all the school | B |
Said he I'll win the crown all right | H |
Bring in your bucking mule | B |
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The elephant went off his trunk | I |
The monkey played the fool | B |
And all the band got blazing drunk | I |
When Dacey rode the mule | B |
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But soon there rose a galling shout | J |
Of laughter for the clown | A |
From somewhere in his pants drew out | J |
A little paper crown | A |
He placed the crown on Dacey's head | K |
While Dacey looked a fool | B |
Now there's your crown my lad he said | K |
For riding of the mule | B |
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The band struck up with Killaloe | B |
And Rule Britannia Rule | B |
And Young Man from the Country too | L |
When Dacey rode the mule | B |
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Then Dacey in a furious rage | M |
For vengeance on the show | N |
Ascended to the monkeys' cage | M |
And let the monkeys go | N |
The blue tailed ape and the chimpanzee | O |
He turned abroad to roam | P |
Good faith It was a sight to see | O |
The people step for home | P |
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For big baboons with canine snout | J |
Are spiteful as a rule | B |
The people didn't sit it out | J |
When Dacey rode the mule | B |
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And from the beasts he let escape | Q |
The bushmen all declare | R |
Were born some creatures partly ape | Q |
And partly native bear | R |
They're rather few and far between | S |
The race is nearly spent | T |
But some of them may still be seen | S |
In Sydney Parliament | U |
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And when those legislators fight | H |
And drink and act the fool | B |
Just blame it on that torrid night | H |
When Dacey rode the mule | B |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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