The Diggers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDDCC EBEBECFFCC| The diggers are digging and digging deep | A |
| They re digging and singing | B |
| And I m asleep | A |
| They re digging and singing and swiftly they re swinging | B |
| The flying earth as it falls in a heap | A |
| And some of it scatters and falls on my head | C |
| But the diggers dig on They can only dig | D |
| They can only sing and their eyes are big | D |
| Their eyes are big and heavy as lead | C |
| They dig and they sing and they think I m dead | C |
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| The diggers are digging and filling the hole | E |
| They re sighing and singing | B |
| They pray for my soul | E |
| I hear what they say and from where I am lying | B |
| I hear a new corporal calling the roll | E |
| But the diggers dig on and fill in my bed | C |
| They diggers dig on and they sweat and they sweat | F |
| They sigh and they sign and their wyes are wet | F |
| The brown earth clatters and covers my head | C |
| Then I laugh and I laugh for they think that I m dead | C |
Leon Gellert
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