Jaloppy Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDDFGFG HIHIDJDK LDMDNONO| Past ash cans and alley cats | A |
| Fetid overflowing gutters | B |
| Leprous lines of rancid flats | A |
| Where the frowsy linen flutters | B |
| With a rattle and a jar | C |
| hark I sing a happy ditty | D |
| As I speed my Master far | C |
| From the poison of the City | D |
| - | |
| Speed him to the sportive sea | D |
| Watch him walloping the briny | E |
| Light his pipe and brew his tea | D |
| In a little wood that's piny | D |
| Haven him to peace of mind | F |
| Drowsy dreams in pleasant places | G |
| Where the woman's eyes are kind | F |
| And the men have ruddy faces | G |
| - | |
| Just a jaloppy am I | H |
| But he's always been my lover | I |
| So each Sunday morn I try | H |
| Youthful joy to re discover | I |
| For he loves the wild and free | D |
| And though he would never know it | J |
| Nature thrills him with the glee | D |
| And the rapture of the poet | K |
| - | |
| He's a little invoice clerk | L |
| I'm a worn and ancient flivver | D |
| I have an asthmatic spark | M |
| He an alcoholic liver | D |
| Yet with clatter clang and creak | N |
| We are lyrical for one day | O |
| Then another loathly week | N |
| Living for another Sunday | O |
Robert Service
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