The Day That Is Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFH IJIJ KLKB CMCM NBNB| Ah Jack Time finds us feeble men | A |
| And all too swift our years have flown | B |
| The days are different now to then | A |
| In that time when we rode ten stone | B |
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| The minstrel when his mem'ry goes | C |
| To old times tunes a doleful lay | D |
| Comparing modern nags with those | C |
| Which Lee once bred down Bathurst way | D |
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| The type to day's a woeful weed | E |
| Which lacks the stoutness strength and bone | B |
| Of horses they were wont to breed | E |
| In those days when we rode ten stone | B |
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| But all of us remorseless Fate | F |
| O'ertakes and as the years roll on | G |
| Our saddles carry extra weight | F |
| And old age mourns the keenness gone | H |
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| The young ones too 'mong men I mean | I |
| Watch not the sires from whom they've sprung | J |
| They nowadays are not so keen | I |
| As when we and the world were young | J |
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| They've neither nerve nor seat to suit | K |
| The back of Paddy Ryan's roar | L |
| That wall eyed vicious bucking brute | K |
| You rode when you could ride ten stone | B |
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| But Johnny ere we 'go to grass' | C |
| Ere angel wings are fledged to fly | M |
| With wine we'll fill a bumper glass | C |
| And drink to those good times gone by | M |
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| We've had our day 'twill not come back | N |
| But comrade mine this much you'll own | B |
| 'Tis something to have had it Jack | N |
| That time when we could ride ten stone | B |
Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant
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