Short Shrift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDE FFG HHII FFJJ EED| I can mind him at the start | A |
| Easy seat and merry heart | A |
| Said he as he threw a glance | B |
| At the crawling ambulance | C |
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| 'Some day I'll be on the ground | D |
| And the van will hurry round | D |
| Doc will gravely wag his head | E |
| 'No use now the poor chap's dead ' | - |
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| 'Every man must soon or late | F |
| Turn up at the Golden Gate | F |
| When we weigh in you and I | G |
| How can horsemen better die ' | - |
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| On that sunlit steeple course | H |
| He lay prone beneath his horse | H |
| Never more his pal may ride | I |
| By that gallant hlorseman's side | I |
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| 'Reckless fool ' What matter mate | F |
| All his time he'd ridden straight | F |
| Went smashed 'gainst that wall of sod | J |
| Spurred and booted to his God | J |
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| Carve in stone above his head | E |
| Words that some old Christian said | E |
| 'Grace he sought and grace he found | D |
| 'Twixt the saddle and the ground ' | - |
Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant
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