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 JM2JM2The Hartley men are noble and | A |
Ye'll hear a tale of woe | B |
I'll tell the doom of the Hartley men | C |
The year of sixty two | D |
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'Twas on the Thursday morning on | E |
The first month of the year | F |
When there befell the thing that well | G |
May rend the heart to hear | H |
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Ere chanticleer with music rare | I |
Awakes the old homestead | J |
The Hartley men are up and off | K |
To earn their daily bread | J |
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On on they toil with heat they broil | L |
And streams of sweat still glue | D |
The stour unto their skins till they | M |
Are black as the coal they hew | D |
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Now to and fro the putters go | B |
The waggons to and fro | B |
And clang on clang the wheel and hoof | N |
Ring in the mine below | B |
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The din and strife of human life | O |
Awake in 'wall' and 'board' | J |
When lo a shock is felt which makes | P |
Each human heart beat heard | J |
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Each bosom thuds as each his duds | Q |
He snatches and away | M |
And to the distant shaft he flees | R |
With all the speed he may | M |
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Each all they flee by two by three | S |
They seek the shaft to seek | T |
An answer in each other's face | U |
To what they may not speak | T |
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Are we entombed they seem to ask | V |
For the shaft is closed and no | B |
Escape have they to God's bright day | M |
From out the night below | B |
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So stand in pain the Hartley men | C |
And o'er them speedily comes | W |
The memory of home and all | X |
That links us to our homes | Y |
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Despair at length renews their strength | Z |
And they the shaft must clear | F |
And soon the sound of mall and pick | A2 |
Half drowns the voice of fear | F |
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And hark to the blow of the mal below | B |
Do the sounds above reply | B2 |
Hurra hurra for the Hartley men | C |
For now their rescue's nigh | B2 |
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Their rescue nigh The sound of joy | C2 |
And hope have ceased and ere | I |
A breath is drawn a rumble heard | J |
Re drives them to despair | I |
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Together now behold them bow | D2 |
Their burden'd souls unload | J |
In cries that never rise in vain | E2 |
Unto the living God | J |
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Whilst yet they kneel again they fell | G |
Their strength renewed again | C |
The swing and the ring of the mall attests | F2 |
The might of the Hartley men | C |
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And hark to the blow of the mall below | B |
Do sounds above reply | B2 |
Hurra hurra for the Hartley men | C |
For now their rescue's nigh | B2 |
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But lo yon light erewhile so bright | J |
No longer lights the scene | G2 |
A cloud of mist yon light has kiss'd | J |
And shorn it of its sheen | G2 |
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A cloud of mist yon light has kiss'd | J |
See how long it steels | H2 |
Till one by one the lights are smote | J |
And deep the doom prevails | I2 |
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Oh father till the shaft is rid | J |
Close close besides me keep | J2 |
My eyelids are together glued | J |
And I and I must sleep | J2 |
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Sleep darling sleep and I will keep | J2 |
Close by heigh ho To keep | J2 |
Himself awake the father strives | K2 |
But he he too must sleep | J2 |
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O brother till the shaft is rid | J |
Close close besides me keep | J2 |
My eyelids are together glued | J |
And I and I must sleep | J2 |
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Sleep brother sleep and I will keep | J2 |
Close by heigh ho To keep | J2 |
Half awake the brother strives | K2 |
But he he too must sleep | J2 |
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O mother dear wert wert thou near | F |
Whilst sleep And the orphan slept | J |
And all night long by the black pit heap | J2 |
The mother a dumb watch kept | J |
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And fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers | L2 |
The lover and the new made bride | J |
A vigil kept for those who slept | J |
From eve to morning tide | J |
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But they slept still in silence dread | J |
Two hundred old and young | M2 |
To awake when heaven and earth have sped | J |
And the last dread trumpet rung | M2 |
Joseph Skipsey
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