The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEAACD FGGHHCD| A tortuous double iron track a station here a station there | A |
| A locomotive tender tanks a coach with stiff reclining chair | A |
| Some postal cars and baggage too a vestibule of patent make | B |
| With buffers duffers switches and the soughing automatic brake | B |
| This is the Orient's novel pride and Syria's gaudiest modern gem | C |
| The railway scheme that is to ply 'twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem | D |
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| Beware O sacred Mooley cow the engine when you hear its bell | E |
| Beware O camel when resounds the whistle's shrill unholy swell | E |
| And native of that guileless land unused to modern travel's snare | A |
| Beware the fiend that peddles books the awful peanut boy beware | A |
| Else trusting in their specious arts you may have reason to condemn | C |
| The traffic which the knavish ply 'twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem | D |
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| And when ah when the bonds fall due how passing wroth will wax the | F |
| state | G |
| From Nebo's mount to Nazareth will spread the cry Repudiate | G |
| From Hebron to Tiberius from Jordan's banks unto the sea | H |
| Will rise profuse anathemas against that monopoly | H |
| And F M B A shepherd folk with Sockless Jerry leading them | C |
| Will swamp that corporation line 'twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem | D |
Eugene Field
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