Worked-out Mine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDBDB GHGHCACA HIHIIIII JKJKLMLM NONOPIPIOn summer nights when moonbeams flow | A |
And glisten o er the high white tips | B |
And winds make lamentation low | A |
As through the ribs of shattered ships | B |
And steal about the broken brace | C |
Where pendant timbers swing and moan | D |
And flitting bats give aimless chase | C |
Who dares to seek the mine alone | D |
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The shrinking bush with sable rims | E |
A skeleton forlorn and bowed | F |
With pipe clay white about its limbs | E |
And at its feet a tattered shroud | F |
And ghostly figures lurk and groan | D |
Shrill whispers sound from ghostly lips | B |
And ghostly footsteps start the stone | D |
That clatters sharply down the tips | B |
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The engine house is dark and still | G |
The life that raged within has fled | H |
Like open graves the boilers chill | G |
That once with glowing fires were red | H |
Above the shaft in measured space | C |
A rotted rope swings to and fro | A |
Whilst o er the plat and on the brace | C |
The silent shadows come and go | A |
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And there below in chambers dread | H |
Where darkness like a fungus clings | I |
Are lingering still the old mine s dead | H |
Bend o er and hear their whisperings | I |
Up from the blackness sobs and sighs | I |
Are flung with moans and muttered fears | I |
A low lament that never dies | I |
And ceaseless sound of falling tears | I |
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My ears intent have heard their grief | J |
The fitful tones of Carter s tongue | K |
The strong man crushed beneath the reef | J |
The groans of Panton Praer and Young | K |
And Trucker Bill of Number Five | L |
Along the ruined workings roll | M |
For deep in every shoot and drive | L |
This mine secretes a shackled soul | M |
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Ah woful mine where wives have wept | N |
And mothers prayed in anxious pain | O |
And long distracting vigil kept | N |
You yawn for victims now in vain | O |
Still to that god whose shrine you were | P |
Is homage done in wild device | I |
Men hate you as the sepulchre | P |
That stores their bloody sacrifice | I |
Edward George Dyson
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