Our New Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFEGEG HBHBIHIH JHJHCHCH KLKLEHEH KHKHKEKE MNMNKOKO EHEHPHAH HHHHHQHQ CBCBBRBR ASATEBEB EHHHBCBC BUBUVWVW COCOEHEH XLXLYRYR EHEHHCHC AUPUUHUH CZCCHA2HA2The boys had come back from the races | A |
All silent and down on their luck | B |
They'd backed 'em straight out and for places | A |
But never a winner they's struck | B |
They lost their good money on Slogan | C |
And fell most uncommonly flat | D |
When Partner the pride of the Bogan | C |
Was beaten by Aristocrat | D |
And one said I move that instanter | E |
We sell out our horses and quit | F |
The brutes ought to win in a canter | E |
Such trials they do when they're fit | F |
The last one they ran was a snorter | E |
A gallop to gladden one's heart | G |
Two twelve for a mile and a quarter | E |
And finished as straight as a dart | G |
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And then when I think that they're ready | H |
To win me a nice little swag | B |
They are licked like the veriest neddy | H |
They're licked from the fall of the flag | B |
The mare held her own to the stable | I |
She died out to nothing at that | H |
And Partner he never seemed able | I |
To pace with the Aristocrat | H |
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And times have been bad and the seasons | J |
Don't promise to be of the best | H |
In short boys there's plenty of reasons | J |
For giving the racing a rest | H |
The mare can be kept on the station | C |
Her breeding is good as can be | H |
But Partner his next destination | C |
Is rather a trouble to me | H |
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We can't sell him here for they know him | K |
As well as the clerk of the course | L |
He's raced and won races till blow him | K |
He's done as a handicap horse | L |
A jady uncertain performer | E |
They weight him right out of the hunt | H |
And clap it on warmer and warmer | E |
Whenever he gets near the front | H |
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It's no use to paint him or dot him | K |
Or put any fake on his brand | H |
For bushmen are smart and they'd spot him | K |
In any sale yard in the land | H |
The folk about here could all tell him | K |
Could swear to each separate hair | E |
Let us send him to Sydney and sell him | K |
There's plenty of Jugginses there | E |
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We'll call him a maiden and treat 'em | M |
To trials will open their eyes | N |
We'll run their best horses and beat 'em | M |
And then won't they think him a prize | N |
I pity the fellow that buys him | K |
He'll find in a very short space | O |
No matter how highly he tries him | K |
The beggar won't race in a race | O |
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Next week under Seller and Buyer | E |
Appeared in the Daily Gazette | H |
A racehorse for sale and a flyer | E |
Has never been started as yet | H |
A trial will show what his pace is | P |
The buyer can get him in light | H |
And win all the handicap races | A |
Apply before Saturday night | H |
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He sold for a hundred and thirty | H |
Because of a gallop he had | H |
One morning with Bluefish and Bertie | H |
And donkey licked both of 'em bad | H |
And when the old horse had departed | H |
The life on the station grew tame | Q |
The race track was dull and deserted | H |
The boys had gone back on the game | Q |
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The winter rolled by and the station | C |
Was green with the garland of Spring | B |
A spirit of glad exultation | C |
Awoke in each animate thing | B |
And all the old love the old longing | B |
Broke out in the breasts of the boys | R |
The visions of racing came thronging | B |
With all its delirious joys | R |
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The rushing of floods in their courses | A |
The rattle of rain on the roofs | S |
Recalled the fierce rush of the horses | A |
The thunder of galloping hoofs | T |
And soon one broke out I can suffer | E |
No longer the life of a slug | B |
The man that don't race is a duffer | E |
Let's have one more run for the mug | B |
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Why everything races no matter | E |
Whatever its method may be | H |
The waterfowl hold a regatta | H |
The possums run heats up a tree | H |
The emus are constantly sprinting | B |
A handicap out on the plain | C |
It seems that all nature is hinting | B |
'Tis ime to be at it again | C |
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The cockatoo parrots are talking | B |
Of races to far away lands | U |
The native companions are walking | B |
A go as you please on the sands | U |
The little foals gallop for pastime | V |
The wallabies race down the gap | W |
Let's try it once more for the last time | V |
Bring out the old jacket and cap | W |
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And now for a horse we might try one | C |
Of those that are bred on the place | O |
But I fancy it's better to buy one | C |
A horse that has proved he can race | O |
Let us send down to Sydney to Skinner | E |
A thorough good judge who can ride | H |
And ask him to buy us a spinner | E |
To clean out the whole country side | H |
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They wrote him a letter as follows | X |
we want you to buy us a horse | L |
He must have the speed to catch swallows | X |
And stamina with it of course | L |
The price ain't a thing that'll grieve us | Y |
It's getting a bad un annoys | R |
The undersigned blokes and believe us | Y |
We're yours to a cinder 'the boys' | R |
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He answered I've bought you a hummer | E |
A horse that has never been raced | H |
I saw him run over the Drummer | E |
He held him outclassed and outpaced | H |
His breeding's not known but they state he | H |
Is born of a thoroughbred strain | C |
I've paid them a hundred and eighty | H |
And started the horse in the train | C |
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They met him alas that these verses | A |
Aren't up to their subject's demands | U |
Can't set forth thier eloquent curses | P |
For Partner was back in their hands | U |
They went in to meet him with gladness | U |
They opened his box with delight | H |
A silent procession of sadness | U |
They crept to the station at night | H |
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And life has grown dull on the station | C |
The boys are all silent and slow | Z |
Their work is a daily vexation | C |
And sport is unknown to them now | C |
Whenever they think how they stranded | H |
They squeal just as guinea pigs squeal | A2 |
They'd bit their own hook and were landed | H |
With fifty pounds loss on the deal | A2 |
Banjo Paterson
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