The Hartley Calamity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LDMD BBNB OJPJ QMRM STUT VBMB CWXY ZFA2F BB2CB2 C2IJI D2JE2J GCF2C BB2CB2 JG2JG2 JH2JI2 JJ2JJ2 J2J2K2J2 JJ2JJ2 J2J2K2J2 FJJ2J L2JJJ JM2JM2

The Hartley men are noble andA
Ye'll hear a tale of woeB
I'll tell the doom of the Hartley menC
The year of sixty twoD
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'Twas on the Thursday morning onE
The first month of the yearF
When there befell the thing that wellG
May rend the heart to hearH
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Ere chanticleer with music rareI
Awakes the old homesteadJ
The Hartley men are up and offK
To earn their daily breadJ
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On on they toil with heat they broilL
And streams of sweat still glueD
The stour unto their skins till theyM
Are black as the coal they hewD
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Now to and fro the putters goB
The waggons to and froB
And clang on clang the wheel and hoofN
Ring in the mine belowB
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The din and strife of human lifeO
Awake in 'wall' and 'board'J
When lo a shock is felt which makesP
Each human heart beat heardJ
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Each bosom thuds as each his dudsQ
He snatches and awayM
And to the distant shaft he fleesR
With all the speed he mayM
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Each all they flee by two by threeS
They seek the shaft to seekT
An answer in each other's faceU
To what they may not speakT
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Are we entombed they seem to askV
For the shaft is closed and noB
Escape have they to God's bright dayM
From out the night belowB
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So stand in pain the Hartley menC
And o'er them speedily comesW
The memory of home and allX
That links us to our homesY
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Despair at length renews their strengthZ
And they the shaft must clearF
And soon the sound of mall and pickA2
Half drowns the voice of fearF
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And hark to the blow of the mal belowB
Do the sounds above replyB2
Hurra hurra for the Hartley menC
For now their rescue's nighB2
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Their rescue nigh The sound of joyC2
And hope have ceased and ereI
A breath is drawn a rumble heardJ
Re drives them to despairI
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Together now behold them bowD2
Their burden'd souls unloadJ
In cries that never rise in vainE2
Unto the living GodJ
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Whilst yet they kneel again they fellG
Their strength renewed againC
The swing and the ring of the mall attestsF2
The might of the Hartley menC
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And hark to the blow of the mall belowB
Do sounds above replyB2
Hurra hurra for the Hartley menC
For now their rescue's nighB2
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But lo yon light erewhile so brightJ
No longer lights the sceneG2
A cloud of mist yon light has kiss'dJ
And shorn it of its sheenG2
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A cloud of mist yon light has kiss'dJ
See how long it steelsH2
Till one by one the lights are smoteJ
And deep the doom prevailsI2
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Oh father till the shaft is ridJ
Close close besides me keepJ2
My eyelids are together gluedJ
And I and I must sleepJ2
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Sleep darling sleep and I will keepJ2
Close by heigh ho To keepJ2
Himself awake the father strivesK2
But he he too must sleepJ2
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O brother till the shaft is ridJ
Close close besides me keepJ2
My eyelids are together gluedJ
And I and I must sleepJ2
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Sleep brother sleep and I will keepJ2
Close by heigh ho To keepJ2
Half awake the brother strivesK2
But he he too must sleepJ2
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O mother dear wert wert thou nearF
Whilst sleep And the orphan sleptJ
And all night long by the black pit heapJ2
The mother a dumb watch keptJ
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And fathers and mothers and sisters and brothersL2
The lover and the new made brideJ
A vigil kept for those who sleptJ
From eve to morning tideJ
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But they slept still in silence dreadJ
Two hundred old and youngM2
To awake when heaven and earth have spedJ
And the last dread trumpet rungM2

Joseph Skipsey



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