Toby
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
Hey, Toby, Toby, Toby!—Dead?
The silence is a flood
That closes, choking, overhead,
And chills the living blood.
The leaping friend, whose jolly bark
Was greeting every night,
No more to thrill the summer dark
With welcome of delight?
Beside his grave I bend the knee,
And O, my eyes are dim.
He hunted for the dog in me:
I found the man in him.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 344 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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