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