To The Men Of The Mines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEFGHGGI JKJKLMLLM NONOJPJJP| WE 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 George Dyson
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