The Old Jimmy Woodser Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEGF HIHHI JKJJK LBLLB| The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar | A |
| Unwelcomed unnoticed unknown | B |
| Too old and too odd to be drunk with by far | A |
| So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are | A |
| And they say that he tipples alone | B |
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| His frockcoat is green and the nap is no more | C |
| And his hat is not quite at its best | D |
| He wears the peaked collar our grandfathers wore | C |
| The black ribbon tie that was legal of yore | C |
| And the coat buttoned over his breast | D |
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| When first he came in for a moment I thought | E |
| That my vision or wits were astray | F |
| For a picture and page out of Dickens he brought | E |
| Twas an old file dropped in from the Chancery Court | G |
| To the wine vault just over the way | F |
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| But I dreamed as he tasted his bitter to night | H |
| And the lights in the bar room grew dim | I |
| That the shades of the friends of that other day s light | H |
| And of girls that were bright in our grandfathers sight | H |
| Lifted shadowy glasses to him | I |
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| Then I opened the door and the old man passed out | J |
| With his short shuffling step and bowed head | K |
| And I sighed for I felt as I turned me about | J |
| An odd sense of respect born of whisky no doubt | J |
| For the life that was fifty years dead | K |
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| And I thought there are times when our memory trends | L |
| Through the future as twere on its own | B |
| That I out of date ere my pilgrimage ends | L |
| In a new fashioned bar to dead loves and dead friends | L |
| Might drink like the old man alone | B |
Henry Lawson
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