To The Men Of The Mines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEFGHGGI JKJKLMLLM NONOJPJJPWe specked as boys o'er worked out ground | A |
By littered fiat and muddy stream | B |
We watched the whim horse trudging round | A |
And rode upon the circling beam | B |
Within the old uproarious mill | C |
Fed mad insatiable stamps | D |
Mined peaceful gorge and gusty hill | C |
With pan and pick and gad and drill | C |
And knew the stir of sudden camps | D |
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By yellow dams in summer days | E |
We puddled at the tom for weeks | F |
Went seeking up the tortuous ways | E |
Of gullies deep and hidden creeks | F |
We worked the shallow leads in style | G |
And hunted fortune down the drives | H |
And missed her mostly by a mile | G |
Once by a yard or so The while | G |
We lived untrammelled easy lives | I |
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Through blazing days upon the brace | J |
We laboured and when night had passed | K |
Beheld the glory and the grace | J |
Of wondrous dawns in bushlands vast | K |
We heard the burdened timbers groan | L |
In deep mines murmurous as the seas | M |
On long lone shores by drear winds blown | L |
We've seen heroic deeds and known | L |
The digger's joys and tragedies | M |
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I write in rhyme of all these things | N |
With little skill perhaps but you | O |
To whom each tale a memory brings | N |
Of bygone days will know them true | O |
Should mates who've worked in stope and face | J |
Who've trenched the hill and swirled the dish | P |
Or toiled upon the plat and brace | J |
Find pleasure in the lines I trace | J |
No better welcome could I wish | P |
Edward Dyson
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