When Dacey Rode The Mule Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFGFGHBHB IBIBJAJAKBKB BBLB MNMNOPOP JBJBQRQRSTSU HBHB S| TWAS to a small up country town | A |
| When we were boys at school | B |
| There came a circus with a clown | A |
| Likewise a bucking mule | B |
| The clown announced a scheme they had | C |
| Spectators for to bring | D |
| They d give a crown to any lad | C |
| Who d ride him round the ring | D |
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| And gentle reader do not scoff | E |
| Nor think a man a fool | B |
| To buck a porous plaster off | E |
| Was pastime to that mule | B |
| The boys got on he bucked like sin | F |
| He threw them in the dirt | G |
| What time the clown would raise a grin | F |
| By asking Are you hurt | G |
| But Johnny Dacey came one night | H |
| The crack of all the school | B |
| Said he I ll win the crown all right | H |
| Bring in your bucking mule | B |
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| The elephant went off his trunk | I |
| The monkey played the fool | B |
| And all the band got blazing drunk | I |
| When Dacey rode the mule | B |
| But soon there rose a galling shout | J |
| Of laughter for the clown | A |
| From somewhere in his pants drew out | J |
| A little paper crown | A |
| He placed the crown on Dacey s head | K |
| While Dacey looked a fool | B |
| Now there s your crown my lad he said | K |
| For riding of the mule | B |
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| The band struck up with Killaloe | B |
| And Rule Britannia Rule | B |
| And Young Man from the Country too | L |
| When Dacey rode the mule | B |
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| Then Dacey in a furious rage | M |
| For vengeance on the show | N |
| Ascended to the monkeys cage | M |
| And let the monkeys go | N |
| The blue tailed ape and the chimpanzee | O |
| He turned abroad to roam | P |
| Good faith It was a sight to see | O |
| The people step for home | P |
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| For big baboons with canine snout | J |
| Are spiteful as a rule | B |
| The people didn t sit it out | J |
| When Dacey rode the mule | B |
| And from the beasts he let escape | Q |
| The bushmen all declare | R |
| Were born some creatures partly ape | Q |
| And partly native bear | R |
| They re rather few and far between | S |
| The race is nearly spent | T |
| But some of them may still be seen | S |
| In Sydney Parliament | U |
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| And when those legislators fight | H |
| And drink and act the fool | B |
| Just blame it on that torrid night | H |
| When Dacey rode the mule | B |
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| A B Banjo Pasterson | S |
Banjo Paterson
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