The Handicap Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHEHIEJE DKLKMENE OPQPERSR| I think I should suit for I've knowledge minute | A |
| Of all tickets time tables and trains | B |
| All speedings and slowings and comings and goings | C |
| Are deeply impressed on my brains | B |
| I know just how long the express to Geelong | D |
| Stops outside certain stations and where | E |
| All the footwarmers go when the winter winds blow | F |
| So I think I am qualified there | E |
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| I can find you a porter or see that your daughter | G |
| Leaves safely for Sydney My list | H |
| Of refreshment room fare is exclusive and rare | E |
| I can tell you what trains you have missed | H |
| I can find little Willie or mind little Millie | I |
| While Mother with no time to spare | E |
| Goes to buy her a bun I can tell you what won | J |
| All the races I'm competent there | E |
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| I have knowledge unique of what days in the week | D |
| Trains stop at your station or not | K |
| I can tell 'Sat excepted' what trains are connected | L |
| With which I am au fait with the lot | K |
| On 'Mon only' or 'Tues ' I have accurate views | M |
| I can tell you on 'Suns ' when and where | E |
| You can gather mushrooms or the gold wattle blooms | N |
| So I feel I am competent there | E |
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| And with all this assortment of facts my deportment | O |
| Impressive yet friendly is right | P |
| At my resonant voice all the ladies rejoice | Q |
| And fools flock to me dribbling delight | P |
| My garments I wear with an air debonair | E |
| But one handicap stands in my way | R |
| Tho' in all else I'm 'It ' those who know me admit | S |
| That I look simply awful in grey | R |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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