Worked-out Mine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDBDB GHGHCACA HIHIIIII JKJKLMLM NONOPIPI

On summer nights when moonbeams flowA
And glisten o er the high white tipsB
And winds make lamentation lowA
As through the ribs of shattered shipsB
And steal about the broken braceC
Where pendant timbers swing and moanD
And flitting bats give aimless chaseC
Who dares to seek the mine aloneD
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The shrinking bush with sable rimsE
A skeleton forlorn and bowedF
With pipe clay white about its limbsE
And at its feet a tattered shroudF
And ghostly figures lurk and groanD
Shrill whispers sound from ghostly lipsB
And ghostly footsteps start the stoneD
That clatters sharply down the tipsB
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The engine house is dark and stillG
The life that raged within has fledH
Like open graves the boilers chillG
That once with glowing fires were redH
Above the shaft in measured spaceC
A rotted rope swings to and froA
Whilst o er the plat and on the braceC
The silent shadows come and goA
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And there below in chambers dreadH
Where darkness like a fungus clingsI
Are lingering still the old mine s deadH
Bend o er and hear their whisperingsI
Up from the blackness sobs and sighsI
Are flung with moans and muttered fearsI
A low lament that never diesI
And ceaseless sound of falling tearsI
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My ears intent have heard their griefJ
The fitful tones of Carter s tongueK
The strong man crushed beneath the reefJ
The groans of Panton Praer and YoungK
And Trucker Bill of Number FiveL
Along the ruined workings rollM
For deep in every shoot and driveL
This mine secretes a shackled soulM
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Ah woful mine where wives have weptN
And mothers prayed in anxious painO
And long distracting vigil keptN
You yawn for victims now in vainO
Still to that god whose shrine you wereP
Is homage done in wild deviceI
Men hate you as the sepulchreP
That stores their bloody sacrificeI

Edward George Dyson



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