The Great Grey Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGAGE HEIEE JKLKE HMGME NOBOE AEPEE| Now two have met now two have met | A |
| Who may not meet again | B |
| Two grains of sand two blades of grass | C |
| Two threads within the skein | D |
| Beside the Great Grey Water | E |
| - | |
| Two hands to touch two hearts to touch | F |
| And here forgathered we | G |
| Will not forget may not forget | A |
| Where last forgathered three | G |
| Beyond the Great Grey Water | E |
| - | |
| Two glasses filled two pipes to fill | H |
| To all our fortunes brother | E |
| And as they clink like so we drink | I |
| Fair passage to the other | E |
| Across the Great Grey Water | E |
| - | |
| For three have sailed and one has sailed | J |
| His sins like ours still on him | K |
| God sleep his soul five oceans roll | L |
| Their long weight all upon him | K |
| O God thy Great Grey Water | E |
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| But I am still and you are still | H |
| And here our chance has flung us | M |
| True comrades we but there were three | G |
| And one is not among us | M |
| Beside the Great Grey Water | E |
| - | |
| A breathing space a biding place | N |
| Soft lights and beakers beaded | O |
| Then out again and on again | B |
| Unminded and unheeded | O |
| Across the Great Grey Water | E |
| - | |
| Now two have met where three have met | A |
| With curses or with laughter | E |
| And so our Day shall pass away | P |
| And so our Night come after | E |
| But ah the Great Grey Water | E |
Edwin James Brady
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