Ode To The Time-gun Of Gurrumbad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGFFG HDIH JKJJK LMLLM NDNND OCOOC DEDDE| Time guns are of invariable pattern and extreme antiquity Other species come and go their ancestor remains always One is to be found in each cantonment he generally occupies a position of unsheltered and pathetic loneliness in a corner of the local parade ground The writer has never seen one herded in the Gun park with his kind | A |
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| Strong scion of the sturdy past | B |
| When simpler methods ruled the fray | C |
| At whose demoralising blast | B |
| The stoutest foe recoiled aghast | B |
| How fall'n art thou to day | C |
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| Thy power the little children mock | D |
| Thy voice that shook the serried line | E |
| But supplements the morning cock | D |
| At roughly speaking one o'clock | D |
| And broadly half past nine | E |
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| Saving when THOMAS' deep employ | F |
| Th' attendant closing hour postpones | G |
| And he the undefeated boy | F |
| To gain a temporary joy | F |
| Hath stuffed thee up with stones | G |
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| Thy kindred of a mushroom 'Mark ' | - |
| Young guns intolerably spruce | H |
| Have cast thee from the social 'park' | D |
| Which to their humbled patriarch | I |
| Must be the very deuce | H |
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| Their little toils with leisure crowned | J |
| They in their turn will seek the Vale | K |
| Of Rest that thou hast never found | J |
| What wonder if thy daily Round | J |
| Is very like a Wail | K |
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| Yet many love thee Though his clutch | L |
| Be heavy Time doth still afford | M |
| That fine consolatory touch | L |
| It hardly seems to go for much | L |
| But cannot be ignored | M |
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| For him that braves the midday fare | N |
| Thou hast the immemorial task | D |
| Of booming forth at one or there | N |
| abouts which saves the wear and tear | N |
| Of yelling out to ask | D |
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| So when athwart the glooming flats | O |
| Thy hoarse nocturnal whispers stray | C |
| Much to the horror of the bats | O |
| We're one day nearer home and that's | O |
| A comfort anyway | C |
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| Then courage Guns may come and go | D |
| But him alone we hold divine | E |
| Whose task it is to let us know | D |
| The hours of one o'clock or so | D |
| And roundly half past nine | E |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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