The Lunger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJKFF LLMMHHNNOOPPHHFF QQRSTTNNULIVWWFF XXCCYYQQPPAAAADDIIZZ A2A2B2B2C2C2D2D2 NNFF| Jack would laugh an' joke all day | A |
| Never saw a lad so gay | A |
| Singin' like a medder lark | B |
| Loaded to the Plimsoll mark | B |
| With God's sunshine was that boy | C |
| Had a strangle holt on Joy | C |
| Held his head 'way up in air | D |
| Left no callin' cards on Care | D |
| Breezy buoyant brave and true | E |
| Sent his sunshine out to you | E |
| Cheerfulest when clouds was black | F |
| Happy Jack Oh Happy Jack | F |
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| Sittin' in my shack alone | G |
| I could hear him in his own | G |
| Singin' far into the night | H |
| Till it didn't seem just right | H |
| One man should corral the fun | I |
| Live his life so in the sun | I |
| Didn't seem quite natural | J |
| Not to have a grouch at all | K |
| Not a trouble not a lack | F |
| Happy Jack Oh Happy Jack | F |
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| He was plumbful of good cheer | L |
| Till he struck that low down year | L |
| Got so thin so little to him | M |
| You could most see day light through him | M |
| Never was his eye so bright | H |
| Never was his cheek so white | H |
| Seemed as if somethin' was wrong | N |
| Sort o' quaver in his song | N |
| Same old smile same hearty voice | O |
| Bless you boys let's all rejoice | O |
| But old Doctor shook his head | P |
| Half a lung was all he said | P |
| Yet that half was surely right | H |
| For I heard him every night | H |
| Singin' singin' in his shack | F |
| Happy Jack Oh Happy Jack | F |
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| Then one day a letter came | Q |
| Endin' with a female name | Q |
| Seemed to get him in the neck | R |
| Sort o' pile driver effect | S |
| Paled his lip and plucked his breath | T |
| Left him starin' still as death | T |
| Somethin' had gone awful wrong | N |
| Yet that night he sang his song | N |
| Oh but it was good to hear | U |
| For there clutched my heart a fear | L |
| So that I quaked listenin' | I |
| Every night to hear him sing | V |
| But each day he laughed with me | W |
| An' his smile was full of glee | W |
| Nothin' seemed to set him back | F |
| Happy Jack Oh Happy Jack | F |
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| Then one night the singin' stopped | X |
| Seemed as if my heart just flopped | X |
| For I'd learned to love the boy | C |
| With his gilt edged line of joy | C |
| With his glorious gift of bluff | Y |
| With his splendid fightin' stuff | Y |
| Sing on lad and play the game | Q |
| O dear God no singin' came | Q |
| But there surged to me instead | P |
| Silence silence deep and dread | P |
| Till I shuddered tried to pray | A |
| Said He's maybe gone away | A |
| Oh yes he had gone away | A |
| Gone forever and a day | A |
| But he'd left behind him there | D |
| In his cabin pinched and bare | D |
| His poor body skin and bone | I |
| His sharp face cold as a stone | I |
| An' his stiffened fingers pressed | Z |
| Somethin' bright upon his breast | Z |
| Locket with a silken curl | A2 |
| Poor sweet portrait of a girl | A2 |
| Yet I reckon at the last | B2 |
| How defiant like he passed | B2 |
| For there sat upon his lips | C2 |
| Smile that death could not eclipse | C2 |
| An' within his eyes lived still | D2 |
| Joy that dyin' could not kill | D2 |
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| An' now when the nights are long | N |
| How I miss his cheery song | N |
| How I sigh an' wish him back | F |
| Happy Jack Oh Happy Jack | F |
Robert Service
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