A Slight Misunderstanding At The Jasper Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBEFFDDGGHIBG DDFFBBJKHK LLFFMMNOPO| Oh do you hear the argument far up above the skies | A |
| The voice of old Saint Peter in expostulation rise | A |
| Growing shrill and ever shriller at the thing that s being done | B |
| More in sorrow than in anger like our old Jack Robertson | B |
| Old Saint Peter s had his troubles heaps of troubles great and small | C |
| Since he kept the gates of Heaven but this last one covers all | C |
| It is not a crowing rooster that s a sight and sound he s useter | D |
| Simulated by some impish spirit that he knows full well | E |
| It is simply Drake of Devon who is breaking out of Heaven | B |
| With a crew of pirate brethren to come down once more to Hell | E |
| Oh do you hear the distant sound that seems to come and go | F |
| As thunder does in summer time when faraway and low | F |
| Or the croon beneath the church bells when they re pealing from the tower | D |
| And the church bells are the battle call in this dark anxious hour | D |
| Do you feel the distant throbbing Do you feel it go and come | G |
| Like a war hymn on horizons or a centuries mellowed drum | G |
| Hear it sobbing hear it throbbing like some not unhappy sobbing | H |
| By the peaceful Devon landscape and the fair Devonian home | I |
| By the land those spirits meet in and it s Drake s Drum spirit beaten | B |
| By perhaps the Rose of Torridge and it s calling Drake to come | G |
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| Oh do you feel a cooling hand upon your fevered brow | D |
| That dulls your ears to Hell s Own Din or that worse Silence now | D |
| In the starlight in the Channel while Destruction lurks below | F |
| Or that Nether Hell the Stoke hole where you cannot see or know | F |
| Do you feel a soothing presence keeping sanity in one | B |
| Going mad in Satan s Nightmare where the gun crew works the gun | B |
| It is Raleigh Admiral Poet who had dreams though few may know it | J |
| Who had dreams of England s greatness otherwise than by the sea | K |
| Sorrowful but all forgiving bringing courage to the living | H |
| Raleigh s Spirit not from London but his Vanished Colony | K |
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| Oh do you feel a stony calm that you had never known | L |
| With comrades in the firing line or Sentry Go alone | L |
| When it s Hellfire all around you and it s freezing slush below | F |
| Or you pace in rain and darkness with Old Death and Sentry Go | F |
| Feel a cold determination that makes all but Now a blank | M |
| That s half foreign to your nature and half foreign to your rank | M |
| It is Wellington where French is who has broken Heaven s trenches | N |
| With his purple blooded captains who used purple language then | O |
| Come to strengthen with his spirit all the coolness you inherit | P |
| He who took the scum of Europe and who trained them to be Men | O |
Henry Lawson
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