The Lay Of The Motor-car Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHI JKJKLMNM| We're away and the wind whistles shrewd | A |
| In our whiskers and teeth | B |
| And the granite like grey of the road | C |
| Seems to slide underneath | B |
| As an eagle might sweep through the sky | D |
| So we sweep through the land | E |
| And the pallid pedestrians fly | D |
| When they hear us at hand | E |
| We outpace we outlast we outstrip | F |
| Not the fast fleeing hare | G |
| Nor the racehorses under the whip | F |
| Nor the birds of the air | G |
| Can compete with our swiftness sublime | H |
| Our ease and our grace | I |
| We annihilate chickens and time | H |
| And policemen and space | I |
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| Do you mind that fat grocer who crossed | J |
| How he dropped down to pray | K |
| In the road when he saw he was lost | J |
| How he melted away | K |
| Underneath and there rang through the fog | L |
| His earsplitting squeal | M |
| As he went Is that he or a dog | N |
| That stuff on the wheel | M |
Banjo Paterson
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