Song Of The Shingle-splitters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEAFAAAGHIH JKLKMNONPAQARSFH TUGUVAAAACACWHAHIN dark wild woods where the lone owl broods | A |
And the dingoes nightly yell | B |
Where the curlew s cry goes floating by | C |
We splitters of shingles dwell | B |
And all day through from the time of the dew | D |
To the hour when the mopoke calls | A |
Our mallets ring where the woodbirds sing | E |
Sweet hymns by the waterfalls | A |
And all night long we are lulled by the song | F |
Of gales in the grand old trees | A |
And in the breaks we can hear the lakes | A |
And the moan of the distant seas | A |
For afar from heat and dust of street | G |
And hall and turret and dome | H |
In forest deep where the torrents leap | I |
Is the shingle splitter s home | H |
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The dweller in town may lie upon down | J |
And own his palace and park | K |
We envy him not his prosperous lot | L |
Though we slumber on sheets of bark | K |
Our food is rough but we have enough | M |
Our drink is better than wine | N |
For cool creeks flow wherever we go | O |
Shut in from the hot sunshine | N |
Though rude our roof it is weather proof | P |
And at the end of the days | A |
We sit and smoke over yarn and joke | Q |
By the bush fire s sturdy blaze | A |
For away from din and sorrow and sin | R |
Where troubles but rarely come | S |
We jog along like a merry song | F |
In the shingle splitter s home | H |
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What though our work he heavy we shirk | T |
From nothing beneath the sun | U |
And toil is sweet to those who can eat | G |
And rest when the day is done | U |
In the Sabbath time we hear no chime | V |
No sound of the Sunday bells | A |
But yet Heaven smiles on the forest aisles | A |
And God in the woodland dwells | A |
We listen to notes from the million throats | A |
Of chorister birds on high | C |
Our psalm is the breeze in the lordly trees | A |
And our dome is the broad blue sky | C |
Oh a brave frank life unsmitten by strife | W |
We live wherever we roam | H |
And our hearts are free as the great strong sea | A |
In the shingle splitter s home | H |
Henry Kendall
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