Interlude - Callaghan's Hotel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB DDBB EEBB| There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co | A |
| And the yard the coaches stood in more than sixty years ago | A |
| And the public private parlour where they serve the passing swell | B |
| Was the shoeing forge and smithy up at Callaghan's Hotel | B |
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| There's the same old walls and woodwork that our fathers built to last | C |
| And the same old doors and wainscot and the windows of the past | C |
| And the same old nooks and corners where the Jim Jams used to dwell | B |
| But the Fantods dance no longer up at Callaghan's Hotel | B |
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| There are memories of old days that were red instead of blue | D |
| In the time of Dick the Devil and of other devils too | D |
| But perhaps they went to Heaven and are angels doing well | B |
| They were always open hearted up at Callaghan's Hotel | B |
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| Then the new chum broken hearted and with boots all broken too | D |
| Got another pair of bluchers and a quid to see him through | D |
| And the old chum got a bottle who was down and suffering Hell | B |
| And no tucker bag went empty out of Callaghan's Hotel | B |
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| And I sit and think in sorrow of the nights that I have seen | E |
| When we fought with chairs and bottles for the orange and the green | E |
| For the peace of poor old Ireland till they rang the breakfast bell | B |
| And the honour of Old England up at Callaghan's Hotel | B |
Henry Lawson
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