Old Town Types No. 26 - Dr. Andy Deveraux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEC FF GHHD IIJJKKLL MMDDNNOO| Some saw in him a Scottish wreck some said that he was mad | A |
| A few proclaimed his genius but all agreed 'twas sad | A |
| That Doctor Andy Deveraux had let things slide so far | B |
| 'A mighty clever cove ' they said 'but weak and there you are ' | C |
| For down at Paddy Clancy's bar you find him night or day | D |
| A silent and sardonic man who went his bitter way | D |
| 'Last night ' some housewife would exclaim 'I thought I'd seen a ghost | E |
| 'Twas that awful Doctor Deveraux going home by post ' | C |
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| 'Going home by post ' they said A sorry township jest | F |
| Long since had Clancy tackled him and had to give him best | F |
| ''Tis under this 'Blackfeller's Act' I'll put yeh Not a sup ' | - |
| But the bitter tongue had lashed him till he gladly gave it up | G |
| So Deveraux would drink alone brooding till wits grew dense | H |
| Then sought his own home late at night along the three wire fence | H |
| From post to post in staggering spurts he made his shameful way | D |
| 'Doc's going home by post ' men sneered 'Broke out again today ' | - |
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| None knew his story in the town nor clearly whence he came | I |
| Nor yet what foul thing rode him what sorrow or what shame | I |
| To cause a once fine brilliant mind as his degrees inferred | J |
| Its urge to brief forgetfulness And Deveraux spoke no word | J |
| Long since kind Doctor Littlejohn had sought to play the friend | K |
| To meet a wall of fierce reserve and get snubbed in the end | K |
| So age and drink took Deveraux and he sank down and down | L |
| To be a thing for men's contempt the butt of half the town | L |
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| Some say it was a drunken freak some say a hero's act | M |
| An epic of self sacrifice Yet there remains the fact | M |
| That there's a tale in that old town men tell until today | D |
| And I have gained thro' hearsay for I'd been long away | D |
| The details are a little vague a garbled tale and wild | N |
| Of how the drunken Deveraux died to save a stricken child | N |
| And whether by the truth or by tradition 'twas devised | O |
| I only know that there today he has been canonised | O |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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