The Motor Car Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCB AADDCCCD EEBBCCCB FFGGCCCG HIJJCCCJ KKLLCCCL| The motor car is sullen like a thing that should not be | A |
| The motor car is master of Smart Society | A |
| Twas born of sweated genius and collared by a clown | B |
| Twas planned by Retribution to ride its riders down | B |
| And straight for Caesar s Column | C |
| It runs to Caesar s Column | C |
| Last section Caesar s Column | C |
| To ride its riders down | B |
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| The motor car is shame struck for greed and misery | A |
| For mad and hopeless self lust and the sins that need not be | A |
| The motor car is vicious for its conscience makes it so | D |
| It aye would smash the victims while it runs the riders low | D |
| And straight for Caesar s Column | C |
| Its goal is Caesar s Column | C |
| It longs for Caesar s Column | C |
| To lay its riders low | D |
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| The motor car is maddened like a horse that s had a fright | E |
| The shameful day behind it and the Coming of the Night | E |
| It flees across the country and it flees back to the town | B |
| And straight for Caesar s Column to run its riders down | B |
| And straight for Caesar s Column | C |
| What ho for Caesar s Column | C |
| Hurrah for Caesar s Column | C |
| To seal its riders down | B |
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| The motor car is reckless like a gambler losing fast | F |
| The motor car s in terror of the Future and the Past | F |
| The motor car is worn out and has passed Sin s boundary by | G |
| And is bound for Caesar s Column where to pile its riders high | G |
| It s bound for Caesar s Column | C |
| And marked for Caesar s Column | C |
| And doomed for Caesar s Column | C |
| To pile its riders high | G |
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| The motor car is brainless and scornful of all tears | H |
| Its dust is in our faces its giggle in our ears | I |
| Its harsh laugh is the last laugh of the last lost soul alone | J |
| Tis nearing Caesar s Column to set self damned in stone | J |
| Change here for Caesar s Column | C |
| All out for Caesar s Column | C |
| Past Hope and Caesar s Column | C |
| To lodge self damned in stone | J |
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| I don t know how twill happen or when twill come to pass | K |
| But folk shall yet pass sanely by river tree and grass | K |
| By homesteads and farm wagons they ll ride each pleasant mile | L |
| And back from Caesar s Column where the world went mad awhile | L |
| And back from Caesar s Column | C |
| With lessons from the Column | C |
| Grown sane at Caesar s Column | C |
| To save the world awhile | L |
Henry Lawson
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