Marshal Neigh, V.c. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED CEFEGHEH IJKJLBMB CNONJJJJ CIJPJQRQ BJJJCSBS JTATTUCU CTITTOTO EBJBJTTT EJJJIJJJ TVBVETET WCTCCPWI CXIXAIAI YZA2ZCTTT ATCTOB2JB2 C2EEETTTTHe came from tumbled country past the | A |
humps of Buffalo | B |
Where the snow sits on the mountain 'n' the | A |
Summer aches below | B |
He'd a silly name like Archie Squattin' | C |
sullen on the ship | D |
He knew nex' to holy nothin' through the gor | E |
forsaken trip | D |
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No thoughts he had of women no refreshin' | C |
talk of beer | E |
If he'd battled loved or suffered vital facts | F |
did not appear | E |
But the parsons and the poets couldn't teach | G |
him to discourse | H |
When it come to pokin' guyver at a pore | E |
deluded horse | H |
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If nags got sour 'n' kicked agin the rules of | I |
things at sea | J |
Artie argued matters with 'em 'n' he'd kid | K |
'em up a tree | J |
Here's a pony got hystericks Pipe the word | L |
for Privit Rowe | B |
The Sargint yapped 'n' all the ship came | M |
cluckin' to the show | B |
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He'd chat him confidential 'n' he'd pet 'n' | C |
paw the moke | N |
He'd tickle him 'n' flatter him 'n' try him | O |
with a joke | N |
'N' presently that neddy sobers up 'n' sez | J |
Ive course | J |
Since you puts it that way cobber I will be | J |
a better horse | J |
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There was one pertickler whaler known | C |
aboard ez Marshal Neigh | I |
Whose monkey tricks with Privit Rowe was | J |
better than a play | P |
He'd done stunts in someone's circus 'n' he | J |
loved a merry bout | Q |
Whirlin' in to bust his boiler or to kick | R |
the bottom out | Q |
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Rowe he sez Well there's an idjit Oh | B |
yes let her whiz you beauty | J |
Where's yer 'orse sense little feller Where's | J |
yer bloomin' sense iv duty | J |
Well you orter serve yer country Then | C |
there'd come a painful hush | S |
'N' that nag would drop his head piece 'n' so | B |
'elp me cat he'd blush | S |
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We was heaped ashore be Suez rifle horse | J |
'n' man 'n' tent | T |
Where the land is sand the water 'n' the | A |
gory firmament | T |
We had intervals iv longin' we had sweaty | T |
spells of work | U |
In the ash pit iv Gehenner dumbly waitin' | C |
fer the Turk | U |
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We goes driftin' on the desert nothin' doin' | C |
nothin' said | T |
Till we get to think we're nowhere 'n' arf | I |
fancy we are dead | T |
'N' the only 'uman interest on the red hori | T |
zon's brim | O |
Is Marshal Neigh's queer faney fer the lad | T |
that straddles him | O |
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Plain livin's nearly bored us stiff The Major | E |
calls on Rowe | B |
To devise an entertainment What his | J |
charger doesn't know | B |
Isn't in the regulations Him 'n' Rowe is | J |
brothers met | T |
'N' that horse's sense iv humor is the oddest | T |
fancy yet | T |
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But the Turk arrives one mornin' on the outer | E |
edge iv space | J |
From back iv things his guns is floppin' kegs | J |
about the place | J |
'N' Privit Artie Rowe along with others iv | I |
the force | J |
Goes pig rootin' inter battle holdin' converse | J |
with his horse | J |
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Little Abdul's quite a fighter 'n' he mixes it | T |
with skill | V |
But the Anzacs have him snouted 'n' oh | B |
ma he's feelin' ill | V |
They wake the all fired desert 'n' the land for | E |
ever dead | T |
Is alive 'n' fairly creepin' and the skies are | E |
droppin' lead | T |
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When they've got the Ot'man goin' little | W |
gaudy hunts begin | C |
It fer us to chiv His Trousers 'n' to round | T |
the stragglers in | C |
Cuttin' closest to the raw 'n' swearin' lovin' | C |
all the way | P |
Is Artie from Molinga on his neddy Marshal | W |
Neigh | I |
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We're pursuin' sundry camels turkey trottin' | C |
anyhow | X |
With the carriage iv an emu 'n' the action iv | I |
a cow | X |
When a sand dune busts 'n' belches arf a | A |
million iv the foe | I |
They uncork a blanky batt'ry 'n' it's Allah | A |
let her go | I |
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We're not stayin' dinner thank you Lie | Y |
along yer horse 'n' yell | Z |
While the bullets pip yer britches 'n' you | A2 |
sniff the flue of Hell | Z |
Here it is that Artie takes it good 'n' solid in | C |
the crust | T |
He dives from out the saddle 'n' is swallered | T |
in the dust | T |
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I got through 'n' saw them pointin' where the | A |
Marshal faced the band | T |
He was goin' where we came from sniffin' | C |
bodies in the sand | T |
Till he found Rowe snugglin' under took him | O |
where his pants was slack | B2 |
'N' be all the Asiatic gods he brought his | J |
soldier back | B2 |
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With a bullet in his buttock 'n' a drill hole | C2 |
in his ear | E |
He dumped Artie down among us Square | E |
'n' all how did we cheer | E |
There's no medals struck fer neddies but we | T |
rule there orter be | T |
'N' the pride iv all the Light Horse is old | T |
Marshal Neigh V C | T |
Edward George Dyson
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