The Horse And Cart Ferry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBBBAAADDB EEBFFBB GGBHHBB EEBCCBB IJBAABB KLBAABB MMBFFBB NNBOOBB KKBFFBB BBPPPEEB| It was old Jerry Brown | A |
| Who d an office in town | A |
| And he used to get jocular very | B |
| And he d go to the Shore | C |
| When they d serve him no more | C |
| And of course by the passenger ferry | B |
| A sight on the passenger ferry | B |
| Now this is a song of the ferry | B |
| And a lay of the juice of the berry | B |
| Tis the ballad of Brown | A |
| Who d a business in town | A |
| And commenced to go down | A |
| Very slow | D |
| Don t you know | D |
| By coming home just a bit merry | B |
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| By the Drunks Boat that s right | E |
| On a Saturday night | E |
| He would often be past being merry | B |
| With his back teeth afloat | F |
| On the twelve o clock boat | F |
| And a spectacle there on the ferry | B |
| A picture to all on the ferry | B |
| - | |
| In the mornings ashamed | G |
| Twas the last drink he blamed | G |
| Though the first was the matter with Jerry | B |
| With his nerve out of joint | H |
| He d sneak down to Blue s Point | H |
| And he d cross by the horse and cart ferry | B |
| Like a thief by the horse and cart ferry | B |
| - | |
| But long before night | E |
| He d most likely be tight | E |
| And a subject and theme for George Perry | B |
| And he d cross to the Shore | C |
| Somewhat worse than before | C |
| And a nuisance to all on the ferry | B |
| Singing drunk on the passenger ferry | B |
| - | |
| And so it went on | I |
| Till his reason seemed gone | J |
| And the Law so it seemed got a derry | B |
| On Brown He went down | A |
| And they sent him to town | A |
| One day by the trap on the ferry | B |
| The Government trap on the ferry | B |
| - | |
| He was sober and sane | K |
| When he came back again | L |
| And the past he d determined to bury | B |
| Or I mean live it down | A |
| And he crossed from the town | A |
| Like a man on the passenger ferry | B |
| There were sceptical souls on that ferry | B |
| - | |
| They say twas the jaw | M |
| Of his mother in law | M |
| Drove him back to the juice of the berry | B |
| But he soon got afloat | F |
| On the passenger boat | F |
| Or adrift on the horse and cart ferry | B |
| Wrongly called the ve hic ular ferry | B |
| - | |
| The drink had him fast | N |
| And he drank till at last | N |
| He dried up a withered old cherry | B |
| And they thought him no loss | O |
| When they sent him across | O |
| In a box on the cart and horse ferry | B |
| In a low covered trap on the ferry | B |
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| Which I rise to explain | K |
| If the moral ain t plain | K |
| And if you re a cove that gets merry | B |
| Always stick when afloat | F |
| To the passenger boat | F |
| Or else to the cart and horse ferry | B |
| Or you ll make matters worse like old Jerry | B |
| - | |
| But this is the song of the ferry | B |
| And the lay of the juice of the berry | B |
| And you will not deny | P |
| If you read by and bye | P |
| That the casual eye | P |
| Of the Tight | E |
| At first sight | E |
| Misses much in the song of the ferry | B |
Henry Lawson
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