The Empty Glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHGJKJ LMEMNOGO DBDBPQJQ RSRSTUGU KVWVXYZY GA2B2A2GJKJ| THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room | A |
| Ah The number is one too few | B |
| They have deemed their home and the bars unfit | C |
| For the thing that they have to do | B |
| Three glasses they fill with the Land s own wine | D |
| And the bread of life they pass | E |
| Their glasses they take which they slowly raise | F |
| And they drink to an empty glass | E |
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| There s a greater glare in the street to night | G |
| And a louder rush and roar | H |
| There s a mad crowd yelling the winner s name | I |
| And howling the cricket score | H |
| Oh The bright moonlight on the angels white | G |
| And the tombs and the monuments grand | J |
| And down by the water at Waverley | K |
| There s a little lone mound of sand | J |
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| Oh the drinkers would deem them drunk or mad | L |
| And the barmaid stare and frown | M |
| Each lays a hand on the empty glass | E |
| Ere they turn it upside down | M |
| There s a name they know in a hand they know | N |
| Was scratched with a diamond there | O |
| And they place it in sight turn on more light | G |
| And they fill their glasses fair | O |
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| There s a widow that weeps by the Hornsby line | D |
| And she stood by him long and true | B |
| But the widow should think by the Hornsby line | D |
| That others have loved him too | B |
| Twas a peaceful end and his work was done | P |
| When called with the year away | Q |
| And the greatest lady in all the land | J |
| Is working for her to day | Q |
| - | |
| If the widow should fear for her children s fate | R |
| Or brood on a future lot | S |
| In a frivolous land with her widowed state | R |
| In a short twelve months forgot | S |
| She can lay her down for a peaceful rest | T |
| And forget her grief in sleep | U |
| For his brothers have taken an oath to night | G |
| An oath that their hearts can keep | U |
| - | |
| They have taken an oath to his memory | K |
| A pledge they cannot recall | V |
| To stand by the woman that stood by him | W |
| Through poverty illness and all | V |
| They are young men yet or the prime of life | X |
| And as each lays down his trust | Y |
| May the world be kind to the left behind | Z |
| And their native land be just | Y |
| - | |
| Silence of death in town to night | G |
| And the streets seem strangely clear | A2 |
| Have the pitiful slaves of the gambling curse | B2 |
| Fled home for a strange new fear | A2 |
| Oh the soft moonlight on the angels white | G |
| Where the beautiful marbles stand | J |
| And down by the rollers at Waverley | K |
| There s a mound of the golden sand | J |
Henry Lawson
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