Ballad: Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDE BDD BCD BBB BBBBB FEG| A | |
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| 'Are you ready for your steeple chase Lorraine Lorraine Lorree | B |
| Barum Barum Barum Barum Barum Barum Baree | B |
| You're booked to ride your capping race to day at Coulterlee | C |
| You're booked to ride Vindictive for all the world to see | D |
| To keep him straight to keep him first and win the run for me | D |
| Barum Barum ' etc | E |
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| She clasped her new born baby poor Lorraine Lorraine Lorree | B |
| 'I cannot ride Vindictive as any man might see | D |
| And I will not ride Vindictive with this baby on my knee | D |
| He's killed a boy he's killed a man and why must he kill me ' | - |
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| 'Unless you ride Vindictive Lorraine Lorraine Lorree | B |
| Unless you ride Vindictive to day at Coulterlee | C |
| And land him safe across the brook and win the blank for me | D |
| It's you may keep your baby for you'll get no keep from me ' | - |
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| 'That husbands could be cruel ' said Lorraine Lorraine Lorree | B |
| 'That husbands could be cruel I have known for seasons three | B |
| But oh to ride Vindictive while a baby cries for me | B |
| And be killed across a fence at last for all the world to see ' | - |
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| She mastered young Vindictive Oh the gallant lass was she | B |
| And kept him straight and won the race as near as near could be | B |
| But he killed her at the brook against a pollard willow tree | B |
| Oh he killed her at the brook the brute for all the world to see | B |
| And no one but the baby cried for poor Lorraine Lorree | B |
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| Last poem written in illness | F |
| Colorado U S A | E |
| June | G |
Charles Kingsley
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