Riders In The Stand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EECC FFCC| There's some that ride the Robbo style and bump at every stride | A |
| While others sit a long way back to get a longer ride | A |
| There's some that ride as sailors do with legs and arms and teeth | B |
| And some that ride the horse's neck and some ride underneath | B |
| But all the finest horsemen out the men to Beat the Band | C |
| You'll find amongst the crowd that ride their races in the Stand | C |
| They'll say He had the race in hand and lost it in the straight | D |
| They'll know how Godby came too soon and Barden came too late | D |
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| They'll say Chevalley lost his nerve and Regan lost his head | E |
| They'll tell how one was livened up and something else was dead | E |
| In fact the race was never run on sea or sky or land | C |
| But what you'd get it better done by riders in the Stand | C |
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| The rule holds good in everything in life's uncertain fight | F |
| You'll find the winner can't go wrong the loser can't go right | F |
| You ride a slashing race and lose by one and all you're banned | C |
| Ride like a bag of flour and win they'll cheer you in the Stand | C |
Banjo Paterson
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