Old Jim Shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD E FFCCCC CDD CGCGHDHHD E FFCCII JKK| He prospered in an olden day | A |
| When down the rutted waggon track | B |
| Thro' scenes that seem a world away | A |
| His bullocks lumbered forth and back | B |
| A tall old man deep voiced erect | C |
| Despite the load of years he bore | D |
| His patriarchal beard grey flecked | C |
| He won from all men deep respect | C |
| Doyen of drivers old Jim Shore | D |
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| 'Gee off Headman Come here Tony | E |
| Darkey Redman Woo there Roany ' | - |
| Goad upraised in stern pretending | F |
| Writhed aloft yet ne'er descending | F |
| To fulfilment of the threat | C |
| Men have said that never yet | C |
| Had Jim's whip lash marked a hide | C |
| Of the sleek beasts that were his pride | C |
| 'Get on Rodney Steady Moonlight ' | - |
| Thro' the disk or dappled moonlight | C |
| Down the deep green ways of yore | D |
| Went the team of old Jim Shore | D |
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| The times have changed it could not last | C |
| The glamor of those halcyon days | G |
| The loud exhaust the siren's blast | C |
| Wake echoes now by old bush ways | G |
| Yet oft when dusk steals down the sky | H |
| I sit again by my house door | D |
| To hear a ghostly team go by | H |
| And mingling with the night wind's sigh | H |
| That rich deep voice of old Jim Shore | D |
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| 'Gee off Headman Stand up Tony | E |
| Darkey Redman Come here Roany ' | - |
| At the yoke I see them straining | F |
| Waggon timbers are complaining | F |
| As from some vague spirit land | C |
| I see the driver wave a hand | C |
| As long ago he used to wave | I |
| Ere the years claimed him and the grave | I |
| 'Up there Major Darby Drummer ' | - |
| Again as on some long lost summer | J |
| The team drifts by and disappears | K |
| Down the green aisles of vanished years | K |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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