Sam's Racehorse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CDGD AHD IJKJ CLIL CCMC KNON IPCP CCDC CCCC ICAC IQRQ IHRH ISKT EKDK IKUK VWVWWhen Sam Small retired from the Army | A |
He'd a pension of ninepence a day | B |
And seven pounds fourteen and twopence | C |
He'd saved from his rations and pay | B |
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He knew this 'ere wasn't a fortune | D |
But reckoned with prudence and care | E |
He'd find some investment to save him | F |
From hard work and things like that there | E |
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He thought he'd invest in a race orse | C |
As apart from excitement and fun | D |
He'd be able to sit down in comfort | G |
And live on the money he won | D |
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He knew buying 'orses was tricky | A |
But that didn't daunt him at all | H |
He said 'They must rise early 't mornin | D |
As wants to play tricks on Sam Small ' | - |
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When he called on the local 'Orse dealer | I |
Surprise rooted him to the spot | J |
For he found 'twere his old Comp'ny Sergeant | K |
Whose kindness he'd never forgot | J |
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'Twere a happy reunion on both sides | C |
Their pleasure at meeting was great | L |
For each hoped to diddle the other | I |
And wipe a few grudges off slate | L |
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The Sergeant brought out his race 'orses | C |
For which he asked various sums | C |
They hadn't a tooth left between them | M |
But Sam knew their age by their gums | C |
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Sam studied their lines and deportment | K |
As Sergeant were trotting them round | N |
And told him he reckoned their value | O |
Were fourpence per race 'orse per pound | N |
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Now the Sarg had a filly called Buster | I |
As he hadn't said nothing about | P |
But when Sam turned his nose up at t'others | C |
He thought as he'd best trot her out | P |
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Sam were struck with her youthful appearance | C |
Though there wasn't much light in the place | C |
For her teeth were all pearly and even | D |
And there wasn't a line on her face | C |
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The Sergeant asked Sam twenty guineas | C |
But Sam who were up to his tricks | C |
Pretended he thought he'd said shillings | C |
And offered him eighteen and six | C |
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In the end he paid eight guineas for her | I |
And when he'd got home with the goods | C |
He reckoned he'd not done so badly | A |
For three of the guineas was duds | C |
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But later when he thought it over | I |
A doubt through his mind seemed to creep | Q |
If Buster were all she were painted | R |
Why the Sergeant had sold her so cheap | Q |
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He very soon found out the answer | I |
When he looked at her close in her stall | H |
She'd the marks where her face had been lifted | R |
And a mouth full of false teeth an' all | H |
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The little walk home had fatigued her | I |
And the cold air had started her cough | S |
Sam reckoned he'd best see the Sergeant | K |
And tell him the bargain was off | T |
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The place were locked up when he got there | E |
And he realized Sergeant had bunked | K |
So back he went home in a dudgeon | D |
And found Buster lying defunct | K |
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Sam knew if he wanted to sell her | I |
He mustn't let on she were dead | K |
So he raffled her down at the Darts Club | U |
Forty members at five bob a head | K |
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The raffle were highly successful | V |
They all came in every man jack | W |
And so's winner'd have no cause to grumble | V |
Sam gave him his five shillings back | W |
Marriott Edgar
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