An Idyll Of Dandaloo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDFBB GBGBBB BHBHBB IJIKBB HLHLFF BBBBMM NHNHBB BOBOBB PQPQBB BBBBBB BBBBLL BBBBBB BRBRBB| On Western plains where shade is not | A |
| 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue | B |
| Where all is dry and all is hot | A |
| There stands the town of Dandaloo | B |
| A township where life's total sum | C |
| Is sleep diversified with rum | C |
| Its grass grown streets with dust are deep | D |
| 'Twere vain endeavour to express | E |
| The dreamless silence of its sleep | D |
| Its wide expansive drunkenness | F |
| The yearly races mostly drew | B |
| A lively crowd at Dandaloo | B |
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| There came a sportsman from the East | G |
| The eastern land where sportsmen blow | B |
| And brought with him a speedy beast | G |
| A speedy beast as horses go | B |
| He came afar in hope to do | B |
| The little town of Dandaloo | B |
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| Now this was weak of him I wot | B |
| Exceeding weak it seemed to me | H |
| For we in Dandaloo were not | B |
| The Jugginses we seemed to be | H |
| In fact we rather thought we knew | B |
| Our book by heart in Dandaloo | B |
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| We held a meeting at the bar | I |
| And met the question fair and square | J |
| We've stumped the country near and far | I |
| To raise the cash for races here | K |
| We've got a hundred pounds or two | B |
| Not half so bad for Dandaloo | B |
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| And now it seems we have to be | H |
| Cleaned out by this here Sydney bloke | L |
| With his imported horse and he | H |
| Will scoop the pool and leave us broke | L |
| Shall we sit still and make no fuss | F |
| While this chap climbs all over us | F |
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| The races came to Dandaloo | B |
| And all the cornstalks from the West | B |
| On every kind of moke and screw | B |
| Come forth in all their glory drest | B |
| The stranger's horse as hard as nails | M |
| Look'd fit to run for New South Wales | M |
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| He won the race by half a length | N |
| Quite half a length it seemed to me | H |
| But Dandaloo with all its strength | N |
| Roared out Dead heat most fervently | H |
| And sfter hesitation meet | B |
| The judge's verdict was Dead heat | B |
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| And many men there were could tell | B |
| What gave the verdict extra force | O |
| The stewards and the judge as well | B |
| They all had backed the second horse | O |
| For things like this they sometimes do | B |
| In larger towns than Dandaloo | B |
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| They ran it off the stranger won | P |
| Hands down by near a hundred yards | Q |
| He smiled to think his troubles done | P |
| But Dandaloo held all the cards | Q |
| They went to scale and cruel fate | B |
| His jockey turned out under weight | B |
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| Perhaps they's tampered with the scale | B |
| I cannot tell I only know | B |
| It weighed him out all right I fail | B |
| To paint that Sydney sportsman's woe | B |
| He said the stewards were a crew | B |
| Of low lived thieves in Dandaloo | B |
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| He lifted up his voice irate | B |
| And swore till all the air was blue | B |
| So then we rose to vindicate | B |
| The dignity of Dandaloo | B |
| Look here said we you must not poke | L |
| Such oaths at us poor country folk | L |
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| We rode him softly on a rail | B |
| We shied at him in careless glee | B |
| Some large tomatoes rank and stale | B |
| And eggs of great antiquity | B |
| Their wild unholy fregrance flew | B |
| About the town of Dandaloo | B |
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| He left the town at break of day | B |
| He led his racehorse through the streets | R |
| And now he tells the tale they say | B |
| To every racing man he meets | R |
| And Sydney sportsmen all eschew | B |
| The atmosphere of Dandaloo | B |
Banjo Paterson
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