The Briny Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCEFEGHFHFFICI CJAJAAKLKMACACC NANAAOAOOYou wonder why so many would be buried in the sea | A |
In this world of froth and bubble | B |
But I don t wonder for it seems to me | A |
That it saves such a lot of trouble | B |
And there ain t no undertaker | C |
Oh there ain t no order that your friends can give | D |
On the quiet to the coffin maker | C |
To a gimcrack coffin maker | C |
They make no differ twixt the absentee swell | E |
And the clerk that cut from a shortage | F |
Oh there ain t no pauper funer el | E |
And there ain t no impressive cortege | G |
It may be a chap from the for ard crowd | H |
Or a member of the British Peerage | F |
But they sew his nibs in a canvas shroud | H |
Just the same as the bloke from the steerage | F |
As that poor bloke from the steerage | F |
There ain t no need for a gravedigger there | I |
For you dig your own grave Lord love yer | C |
And there ain t no use for a headstone fair | I |
When the waters close above yer | C |
The little headstone where they come to weep | J |
May be right for the land s dry rotters | A |
But you rest just as sound when you re anchored deep | J |
With the pigiron at your trotters | A |
Our fathers had iron at their trotters | A |
The sea is democratic the wide world round | K |
And it don t give a hang for no man | L |
There ain t no Church of England burial ground | K |
Nor yet there ain t no Roman | M |
Orthodox and het rodox by wreck strewn cliffs | A |
At peace in the stormiest weather | C |
Might bob up and down like two brother stiffs | A |
And rest in one shark together | C |
And mix up their bones together | C |
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The bare headed skipper is as good any day | N |
As an authorised shifter of sin is | A |
And the tear of shipmate is better anyway | N |
Than the tear of the next of kin is | A |
It saves your friends and it fills your needs | A |
It is best when all is reckoned | O |
And she can t come there in her widder weeds | A |
With her eyes on a likely second | O |
And a spot for the likely second | O |
Henry Lawson
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