When The Bell Blew Up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DE FF GHIHE J JKL MNM O POPOQ CR SS TOTOU'That's the boiler at The Bell mates Tumble out Ned neck and crop | A |
Never mind your hat and coat man we'll be wanted on the job | B |
Barney's driving Harvey's stoking God help all the hands on top | A |
Bring along the brandy some one Don't stand like an image Bob | B |
Grab those shirts they'll all be needed Rugs and candles that's all right | C |
Bet your lives boys we'll have lots of doctor's work to do to night | C |
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'Didn't she thunder Scot I thought the universe had gone to smash | D |
Take the track through Peetree's paddock make the smartest time you know | E |
Barney swore her plates were rotten but poor Bill was always rash ' | - |
'And his missus heaven help her they were spliced a month ago ' | - |
Down the track we raced together up the hill then o'er the claim | F |
Saw the steam clouds hanging thickly lustrous with the glow of flame | F |
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Boiler house in hopeless ruins engines wrecked and smoke stack gone | G |
Bricks and shingles widely scattered and the shattered boiler bare | H |
'Five men missed ' 'Buck in you fellows get your freest action on | I |
Keep the fire back from the timbers God knows who is under there | H |
Sprag that knocker How it rattles Braceman's nowhere Coleman's Joe | E |
Tell them what has happened Ryan They will have to wait below ' | - |
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As we fought the fires the women pale and tearful gathered round | J |
'That you Peter Thanks to Heaven ' 'There's my Harry God is good ' | - |
'Praise the Lord they've got our lad safe Joe the braceman has been found | J |
Down between the tips they found him pinned there by a log of wood | K |
'Battery boys are safe Mack saw them hiding under Peetree's ricks | L |
They just up and cut from under when it started raining bricks ' | - |
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Only two now Bill and Barney Still we laboured might and main | M |
'Mid the ruins round the boiler where the shattered walls were stacked | N |
Then his wife discovered Barney dazed and black but right as rain | M |
Said he didn't know what hit him 'thought the crack of doom had cracked ' | - |
He had landed on the sand heap thirty yards or so away | O |
'God is mighty good to sinners ' murmured Geordie 'Let us pray ' | - |
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Fifty voices called on Harvey and we worked like horses all | P |
Delving down amongst the timber burnt and knocked about but gay | O |
'Lend a hand here every man he's pinned beneath the outer wall | P |
All together Now you've got him Gently does it That's O K | O |
Scalded Yes and right arm broken Pass some brandy one of you | Q |
Cheer ye devils Give it lip lads He's alive and kicking too ' | - |
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'Give him air now Make a track there Let him see his missus first ' | - |
'Where's his wife ' The women wondered She had not been seen all night | C |
Someone whispered she was timid that she dared not face the worst | R |
Harvey smiled despite his troubles 'Boys she's fainted she's all right ' | - |
So we bore him gaily home and as he saw the gateway near | S |
Bill tried hard to lead the chorus when we gave a rousing cheer | S |
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'Stop for God's sake ' In the garden where her life blood tinged the vine | T |
Prone poor Harvey's wife was lying in the moon light cold and gray | O |
There the flying bolt had struck her as she ran towards the mine | T |
We could guess the truth too well and near a broken firebar lay | O |
Carrol kneeling down beside her gently raised the wounded head | U |
And we bent to catch his whisper and he answered sadly 'Dead ' | - |
Edward Dyson
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