Dan, The Wreck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG HIJIIIII EKLKMDMN IOIOKIKI NPNPQRQ QSQSITII QUQUEIVI IWIWKXKX QQQQXTXT YXYX NTZ QDQDXIXITall and stout and solid looking | A |
Yet a wreck | B |
None would think Death's finger's hooking | A |
Him from deck | B |
Cause of half the fun that's started | C |
Hard case' Dan | D |
Isn't like a broken hearted | C |
Ruined man | D |
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Walking coat from tail to throat is | E |
Frayed and greened | F |
Like a man whose other coat is | E |
Being cleaned | F |
Gone for ever round the edging | A |
Past repair | G |
Waistcoat pockets frayed with dredging | A |
After sprats' no longer there | G |
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Wearing summer boots in June or | H |
Slippers worn and old | I |
Like a man whose other shoon are | J |
Getting soled | I |
Pants They're far from being recent | I |
But perhaps I'd better not | I |
Says they are the only decent | I |
Pair he's got | I |
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And his hat I am afraid is | E |
Troubling him | K |
Past all lifting to the ladies | L |
By the brim | K |
But although he'd hardly strike a | M |
Girl would Dan | D |
Yet he wears his wreckage like a | M |
Gentleman | N |
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Once no matter how the rest dressed | I |
Up or down | O |
Once they say he was the best dressed | I |
Man in town | O |
Must have been before I knew him | K |
Now you'd scarcely care to meet | I |
And be noticed talking to him | K |
In the street | I |
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Drink the cause and dissipation | N |
That is clear | P |
Maybe friend or kind relation | N |
Cause of beer | P |
And the talking fool who never | Q |
Reads or thinks | R |
Says from hearsay Yes he's clever | Q |
But you know he drinks ' | - |
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Been an actor and a writer | Q |
Doesn't whine | S |
Reckoned now the best reciter | Q |
In his line | S |
Takes the stage at times and fills it | I |
Princess May' or Waterloo' | T |
Raise a sneer his first line kills it | I |
Brings 'em' too | I |
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Where he lives or how or wherefore | Q |
No one knows | U |
Lost his real friends and therefore | Q |
Lost his foes | U |
Had no doubt his own romances | E |
Met his fate | I |
Tortured doubtless by the chances | V |
And the luck that comes too late | I |
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Now and then his boots are polished | I |
Collar clean | W |
And the worst grease stains abolished | I |
By ammonia or benzine | W |
Hints of some attempt to shove him | K |
From the taps | X |
Or of someone left to love him | K |
Sister p'r'aps | X |
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After all he is a grafter | Q |
Earns his cheer | Q |
Keeps the room in roars of laughter | Q |
When he gets outside a beer | Q |
Yarns that would fall flat from others | X |
He can tell | T |
How he spent his stuff' my brothers | X |
You know well | T |
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Manner puts a man in mind of | Y |
Old club balls and evening dress | X |
Ugly with a handsome kind of | Y |
Ugliness | X |
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One of those we say of often | N |
While hearts swell | T |
Standing sadly by the coffin | Z |
He looks well ' | - |
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We may be so goes a rumour | Q |
Bad as Dan | D |
But we may not have the humour | Q |
Of the man | D |
Nor the sight well deem it blindness | X |
As the general public do | I |
And the love of human kindness | X |
Or the GRIT to see it through | I |
Henry Lawson
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