Cassidy's Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACADEDEAAAA FGFGAAAA AHAHIAJA| Here lies a bloke who's just gone West | A |
| A Number One Australian | B |
| He took his gun and did his best | A |
| To mitigate the alien | B |
| So long as he could get to work | C |
| He needed no sagacity | A |
| A German Austrian or Turk | C |
| Were all the same to Cassidy | A |
| Wherever he could raise the stuff | D |
| A liquor deleterious | E |
| The question when he'd have enough | D |
| Was apt to be mysterious | E |
| 'Twould worry prudent folks a lot | A |
| Through mental incapacity | A |
| If he could keep it down or not | A |
| Was all the same to Cassidy | A |
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| And when the boys would start a dance | F |
| In honour of Terpsichore | G |
| 'Twas just an even money chance | F |
| You'd find him rather shickery | G |
| But once he struck his proper stride | A |
| And heard the band's vivacity | A |
| The jazz the tango or the slide | A |
| Was all the same to Cassidy | A |
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| And now he's gone to face the Light | A |
| With all it may reveal to him | H |
| A life without a drink or fight | A |
| Perhaps may not appeal to him | H |
| But when St Peter calls the roll | I |
| Of men of proved tenacity | A |
| You'll find the front rank right hand man | J |
| Will answer Here Cassidy | A |
Banjo Paterson
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