When The Bell Blew Up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHEE JKJKLL MNMNOO POPOQQ RCRCSS TOTOUU| 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 | D |
| And his missus heaven help her they were spliced a month ago | E |
| 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 | E |
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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 | K |
| 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 | L |
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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 | N |
| He had landed on the sand heap thirty yards or so away | O |
| God is mighty good to sinners murmured Geordie Let us pray | O |
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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 | Q |
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| Give him air now Make a track there Let him see his missus first | R |
| 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 | C |
| 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 | U |
Edward George Dyson
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