Dance-hall Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFC HIHJCKCK GLGLMNMMN| Where are the dames I used to know | A |
| In Dawson in the days of yore | B |
| Alas it's fifty years ago | A |
| And most I guess have gone before | B |
| The swinging scythe is swift to mow | A |
| Alike the gallant and the fair | C |
| And even I with gouty toe | A |
| Am glad to fill a rocking chair | C |
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| Ah me I fear each gaysome girl | D |
| Who in champagne I used to toast | E |
| or cozen in the waltz's whirl | D |
| In now alas a wistful ghost | E |
| Oh where is Touch The Button Nell | F |
| Or Minnie Dale or Rosa Lee | G |
| Or Lorna Doone or Daisy Bell | F |
| And where is Montreal Maree | C |
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| Fair ladies of my lusty youth | H |
| I fear that you are dead and gone | I |
| Where's Gertie of the Diamond Tooth | H |
| And where the Mare of Oregon | J |
| What's come of Violet de Vere | C |
| Claw fingered Kate and Gumboot Sue | K |
| They've crossed the Great Divide I fear | C |
| Remembered now by just a few | K |
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| A few who like myself can see | G |
| Through half a century of haze | L |
| A heap of goodness in their glee | G |
| And kindness in their wanton ways | L |
| Alas my sourdough days are dead | M |
| Yet let me toss a tankard down | N |
| Here's hoping that you wed and bred | M |
| And lives of circumspection led | M |
| Gay dance hall girls o Dawson Town | N |
Robert Service
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