The Glass On The Bar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEDD DDF D GHF DD IIJJDD| Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn | A |
| And one of them called for the drinks with a grin | A |
| They'd only returned from a trip to the North | B |
| And eager to greet them the landlord came forth | B |
| He absently poured out a glass of Three Star | C |
| And set down that drink with the rest on the bar | C |
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| There that is for Harry ' he said and it's queer | D |
| 'Tis the very same glass that he drank from last year | D |
| His name's on the glass you can read it like print | E |
| He scratched it himself with an old piece of flint | E |
| I remember his drink it was always Three Star' | D |
| And the landlord looked out through the door of the bar | D |
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| He looked at the horses and counted but three | D |
| You were always together where's Harry ' cried he | D |
| Oh sadly they looked at the glass as they said | F |
| You may put it away for our old mate is dead ' | - |
| But one gazing out o'er the ridges afar | D |
| Said We owe him a shout leave the glass on the bar ' | - |
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| They thought of the far away grave on the plain | G |
| They thought of the comrade who came not again | H |
| They lifted their glasses and sadly they said | F |
| We drink to the name of the mate who is dead ' | - |
| And the sunlight streamed in and a light like a star | D |
| Seemed to glow in the depth of the glass on the bar | D |
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| And still in that shanty a tumbler is seen | I |
| It stands by the clock ever polished and clean | I |
| And often the strangers will read as they pass | J |
| The name of a bushman engraved on the glass | J |
| And though on the shelf but a dozen there are | D |
| That glass never stands with the rest on the bar | D |
Henry Lawson
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