A Dan Yell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHE JJJJGKGK LJLJGGGG GMGMGEGE GNGNGOGP| I WISH I d never gone to board | A |
| In that house where I met | B |
| The touring lady from abroad | C |
| Who mocks my nightmares yet | B |
| I wish I wish that she had saved | D |
| Her news of what she d seen | E |
| That Dan O Connor is clean shaved | D |
| And parts his hair between | E |
| - | |
| The ladies down at Manly now | F |
| And widows understood | G |
| No more deplore their marriage vow | F |
| Or hopeless widowhood | G |
| For Dan O Connor is the same | H |
| As though he d never been | I |
| Since Daniel shaved that shave of shame | H |
| And combed his hair between | E |
| - | |
| No more Oh Bards in Danyel tones | J |
| He ll voice our several fames | J |
| And nevermore he ll mix our bones | J |
| As once he mixed our names | J |
| Let Southern minstrels dree their weird | G |
| And lay their sad harps down | K |
| For Dan O Connor s shorn of beard | G |
| And cracked across the crown | K |
| - | |
| The lobby and refreshment room | L |
| Are shorn of half their larks | J |
| A newer ghost now haunts the gloom | L |
| That knew the ghost of Parkes | J |
| The brightest joke Australia had | G |
| Is but a hopeless grunt | G |
| It went for ever mad and bad | G |
| When Daniel shaved his front | G |
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| The fair Spotswhoshky weeps indeed | G |
| Frogsleggi and Bung Lung | M |
| With none to greet and none to speed | G |
| Them in their native tongue | M |
| By Sucklar Key nor Golden Gate | G |
| No Dan is ever seen | E |
| Since Dan O Connor wiped his slate | G |
| And notched his top between | E |
| - | |
| But Dan O Connor Lord knows best | G |
| The thing might be a sell | N |
| You surely will forgive a jest | G |
| From one who wished you well | N |
| When we ve forgot the face we feared | G |
| And Time has deadened pain | O |
| Oh Dan O Connor grow your beard | G |
| And come to us again | P |
Henry Lawson
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