The Old Brass Rail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJIKLML DNONPQRQ STUTVBCB| Foot on the rail in the olden days | A |
| For all the world to see | B |
| A jolly old lot they took their pot | C |
| All unashamed and free | B |
| Passing their jest from lip to lip | D |
| Puffing away the foam | E |
| Till a small voice cried from the path outside | F |
| 'Ma says you're to come on home ' | G |
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| Foot on the rail they faced the world | H |
| And cared not who should know | I |
| And many they went thro' a life mis spent | J |
| As man a man must go | I |
| Straight to the dogs from the old brass rail | K |
| Lost and ruined and wrecked | L |
| But he went to his fate with the game played straight | M |
| And he went with his head erect | L |
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| Then came the camel with his lip adroop | D |
| Calling an end to fun | N |
| Tho' his cause was strong his way was wrong | O |
| And his task was most ill done | N |
| Turning a man to a furtive sneak | P |
| Stealing by ways obscure | Q |
| Bad if you will was the old old ill | R |
| But worse by far was the cure | Q |
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| Oh man will sin as his fathers sinned | S |
| Since ever this world was made | T |
| But if he must sin then let him sin | U |
| In the open unafraid | T |
| Foot on the old brass rail again | V |
| For all the world to see | B |
| A jolly old lot who takes his tot | C |
| All unashamed and free | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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