Tommy Corrigan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCAA EEFFCC GGFFCC HHIIJK| You talk of riders on the flat of nerve and pluck and pace | A |
| Not one in fifty has the nerve to ride a steeplechase | A |
| It's right enough while horses pull and take their faces strong | B |
| To rush a flier to the front and bring the field along | B |
| Bur what about the last half mile with horses blown and beat | C |
| When every jump means all you know to keep him on his feet | C |
| When any slip means sudden death with wife and child to keep | D |
| It needs some nerve to draw the whip and flog him at the leap | D |
| But Corrigan would ride them out by danger undismayed | C |
| He never flinched at fence or wall he never was afraid | C |
| With easy seat and nerve of steel light hand and smiling face | A |
| He held the rushing horses back and made the sluggards race | A |
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| He gave the shirkers extra heart he steadied down the rash | E |
| He rode great clumsy boring brutes and chanced a fatal smash | E |
| He got the rushing Wymlet home that never jumped at all | F |
| But clambered over every fence and clouted every wall | F |
| You should have heard the cheers my boys that shook the members' stand | C |
| Whenever Tommy Corrigan weighed out to ride Lone Hand | C |
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| They were indeed a glorious pair the great upstanding horse | G |
| The gamest jockey on his back that ever faced a course | G |
| Though weight was big and pace was hot and fences stiff and tall | F |
| You follow Tommy Corrigan was passed to one and all | F |
| And every man on Ballarat raised all he could command | C |
| To put on Tommy Corrigan when riding old Lone Hand | C |
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| But now we'll keep his memory green while horsemen come and go | H |
| We may not see his like again where silks and satins glow | H |
| We'll drink to him in silence boys he's followed down the track | I |
| Where many a good man went before but never one came back | I |
| Amd let us hope in that far land where the shades of brave men reign | J |
| The gallant Tommy Corrigan will ride Lone Hand again | K |
Banjo Paterson
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