Stand By The Engines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBF GGFF HHFF IIFF| On the moonlighted decks there are children at play | A |
| While smoothly the steamer is holding her way | A |
| And the old folks are chatting on deck seats and chairs | B |
| And the lads and the lassies go strolling in pairs | B |
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| Some gaze half entranced on the beautiful sea | C |
| And wonder perhaps if a vision it be | C |
| And surely their journeys no sorrow nor care | D |
| For wealth love and beauty are passengers there | D |
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| But down underneath mid the coal dust that smears | E |
| The face and the hands work the ship s engineers | E |
| Whate er be the duty of others tis theirs | B |
| To stand by their engines whatever occurs | F |
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| The sailor may gaze on the sea and the sky | G |
| The sailor may tell when the danger is nigh | G |
| But when Death his black head o er the waters uprears | F |
| Unseen he is met by the ship s engineers | F |
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| They are thrown from their feet by the force of a shock | H |
| They know that their vessel has struck on a rock | H |
| Now stand by your engines when danger appears | F |
| For all may depend on the ship s engineers | F |
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| No thought of their danger No mad rush on deck | I |
| They stand at their posts in the hull of a wreck | I |
| Firm hands on the valves and the white steam appears | F |
| And down with their ship go the brave engineers | F |
Henry Lawson
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