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Corn Medicine

Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant

'A well-bred horse! but he won't get fat,
   Though I've done the best 1 can;
He keeps as poor as a blessed rat!'
    Said the sorrowful stable-man.

'I've bled and I've blistered him-and to-day
   I bought him a monster ball;
But, blow the horse! let me do what 1 may,
   He won't get fat at all.

'I've given him medicines galore,
   And linseed oil and bran,
And yet the brute looks awfully poor,'
   Said the woebegone stable-man.

One glance the intelligent stranger threw
   At the ribs of the hollow weed,
Then asked, with an innocent air, 'Did you
   Forget to give him a feed?'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD XBXB EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 576
Words 109
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant

Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet and military officer, who was convicted and executed for murder during the Second Anglo-Boer War. While serving with the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Second Anglo-Boer War, Lieutenant Morant was arrested and court-martialed for war crimes—one of the first such prosecutions in British military history. According to military prosecutors, Morant retaliated for the death in combat of his commanding officer with a series of revenge killings against both Boer POWs and many civilian residents of the Northern Transvaal. more…

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