Dance-hall Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFC HIHJCKCK GLGLMNMMNWhere 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 William Service
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