Sospan Fach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DEF GGH IIJJ KKLL BBMM NNOO PPQQ RRSS| The Little Saucepan | A |
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| Four collier lads from Ebbw Vale | B |
| Took shelter from a shower of hail | B |
| And there beneath a spreading tree | C |
| Attuned their mouths to harmony | C |
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| With smiling joy on every face | D |
| Two warbled tenor two sang bass | E |
| And while the leaves above them hissed with | F |
| Rough hail they started 'Aberystwyth ' | - |
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| Old Parry's hymn triumphant rich | G |
| They changed through with even pitch | G |
| Till at the end of their grand noise | H |
| I called 'Give us the 'Sospan' boys ' | - |
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| Who knows a tune so soft so strong | I |
| So pitiful as that 'Saucepan' song | I |
| For exiled hope despaired desire | J |
| Of lost souls for their cottage fire | J |
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| Then low at first with gathering sound | K |
| Rose their four voices smooth and round | K |
| Till back went Time once more I stood | L |
| With Fusiliers in Mametz Wood | L |
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| Fierce burned the sun yet cheeks were pale | B |
| For ice hail they had leaden hail | B |
| In that fine forest green and big | M |
| There stayed unbroken not one twig | M |
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| They sang they swore they plunged in haste | N |
| Stumbling and shouting through the waste | N |
| The little 'Saucepan' flamed on high | O |
| Emblem of hope and ease gone by | O |
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| Rough pit boys from the coaly South | P |
| They sang even in the cannon's mouth | P |
| Like Sunday's chapel Monday's inn | Q |
| The death trap sounded with their din | Q |
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| The storm blows over Sun comes out | R |
| The choir breaks up with jest and shout | R |
| With what relief I watch them part | S |
| Another note would break my heart | S |
Robert Graves
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