The Dark Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDD EFDFGG HIJJJKK JJLLJJJ| Do you know this mysterious serious Watt | A |
| Who sits at the game with the cards in his sleeve | B |
| Watching and waiting | C |
| While we're calculating | C |
| The tricks and the honors It's hard to believe | B |
| That any man use to a gamble political | D |
| COULD be so slow And we're apt to get critical | D |
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| Why this annoying and cloying restraint | E |
| Can't he declare when he counts up his hand | F |
| Some say he's mutable others inscrutable | D |
| Counting a slam either little or grand | F |
| Still he should recognise players are waiting there | G |
| While he is holding his cards hesitating there | G |
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| Even disasterful masterful Hughes | H |
| Pauses to think as he looks o'er his cards | I |
| 'Can he be 'cute ' he says | J |
| 'Or just a mute ' he says | J |
| Oh don't this rhyming come hard on the bards | J |
| Still if the 'aces' are all held by Billy then | K |
| Watt won't declare But the question is' Will 'e then | K |
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| E'en analytical critical Bruce | J |
| Dares to declare he has more than his 'doots' | J |
| Though he's a Treasurer | L |
| And a shrewd measurer | L |
| Of all the chances of various 'soots' | J |
| So the game stands And there's no declaration sirs | J |
| All's in the Game But the STAKE is the nation sirs | J |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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