The Ballad Of Minepit Shaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKK LBLM FNFK OKOK OKOK PKPK QKQK RKRK KSKK KTKT UVWV KKKK| About the time that taverns shut | A |
| And men can buy no beer | B |
| Two lads went up to the keepers' hut | A |
| To steal Lord Pelham's deer | B |
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| Night and the liquor was in their heads | C |
| They laughed and talked no bounds | D |
| Till they waked the keepers on their beds | C |
| And the keepers loosed the hounds | D |
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| They had killed a hart they had killed a hind | E |
| Ready to carry away | F |
| When they heard a whimper down the wind | E |
| And they heard a bloodhound bay | F |
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| They took and ran across the fern | G |
| Their crossbows in their hand | H |
| Till they met a man with a green lantern | G |
| That called and bade 'em stand | H |
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| quot What are ye doing O Flesh and Blood | I |
| And what's your foolish will | J |
| That you must break into Minepit Wood | K |
| And wake the Folk of the Hill quot | K |
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| quot Oh we've broke into Lord Pelham's park | L |
| And killed Lord Pelham's deer | B |
| And if ever you heard a little dog bark | L |
| You'll know why we come here | M |
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| quot We ask you let us go our way | F |
| As fast as we can flee | N |
| For if ever you heard a bloodhound bay | F |
| You'll know how pressed we be quot | K |
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| quot Oh lay your crossbows on the bank | O |
| And drop the knives from your hand | K |
| And though the hounds be at your flank | O |
| I'll save you where you stand quot | K |
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| They laid their crossbows on the bank | O |
| They threw their knives in the wood | K |
| And the ground before them opened and sank | O |
| And saved 'em where they stood | K |
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| quot Oh what's the roaring in our ears | P |
| That strikes us well nigh dumb quot | K |
| quot Oh that is just how things appears | P |
| According as they come quot | K |
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| quot What are the stars before our eyes | Q |
| That strike us well nigh blind quot | K |
| quot Oh that is just how things arise | Q |
| According as you find quot | K |
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| quot And why's our bed so hard to the bones | R |
| Excepting where it's cold quot | K |
| quot Oh that's because it is precious stones | R |
| Excepting where 'tis gold | K |
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| quot Think it over as you stand | K |
| For I tell you without fail | S |
| If you haven't got into Fairyland | K |
| You're not in Lewes Gaol quot | K |
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| All night long they thought of it | K |
| And come the dawn they saw | T |
| They'd tumbled into a great old pit | K |
| At the bottom of Minepit Shaw | T |
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| And the keeper's hound had followed 'em close | U |
| And broke her neck in the fall | V |
| So they picked up their knives and their crossbows | W |
| And buried the dog That's all | V |
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| But whether the man was a poacher too | K |
| Or a Pharisee' so bold | K |
| I reckon there's more things told than are true | K |
| And more things true than are told | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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