An Arctic Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFFAAGGAAHHIIJ JAAKKLLMKAANNDDOOPQ OOJJRRSMJJTTTU UVUUAAWW XXYYZZAAKKKKRR JJMSUU| Where the short legged Esquimaux | A |
| Waddle in the ice and snow | B |
| And the playful Polar bear | C |
| Nips the hunter unaware | C |
| Where by day they track the ermine | D |
| And by night another vermin | E |
| Segment of the frigid zone | F |
| Where the temperature alone | F |
| Warms on St Elias' cone | F |
| Polar dock where Nature slips | A |
| From the ways her icy ships | A |
| Land of fox and deer and sable | G |
| Shore end of our western cable | G |
| Let the news that flying goes | A |
| Thrill through all your Arctic floes | A |
| And reverberate the boast | H |
| From the cliffs off Beechey's coast | H |
| Till the tidings circling round | I |
| Every bay of Norton Sound | I |
| Throw the vocal tide wave back | J |
| To the isles of Kodiac | J |
| Let the stately Polar bears | A |
| Waltz around the pole in pairs | A |
| And the walrus in his glee | K |
| Bare his tusk of ivory | K |
| While the bold sea unicorn | L |
| Calmly takes an extra horn | L |
| All ye Polar skies reveal your | M |
| Very rarest of parhelia | K |
| Trip it all ye merry dancers | A |
| In the airiest of Lancers | A |
| Slide ye solemn glaciers slide | N |
| One inch farther to the tide | N |
| Nor in rash precipitation | D |
| Upset Tyndall's calculation | D |
| Know you not what fate awaits you | O |
| Or to whom the future mates you | O |
| All ye icebergs make salaam | P |
| You belong to Uncle Sam | Q |
| - | |
| On the spot where Eugene Sue | O |
| Led his wretched Wandering Jew | O |
| Stands a form whose features strike | J |
| Russ and Esquimaux alike | J |
| He it is whom Skalds of old | R |
| In their Runic rhymes foretold | R |
| Lean of flank and lank of jaw | S |
| See the real Northern Thor | M |
| See the awful Yankee leering | J |
| Just across the Straits of Behring | J |
| On the drifted snow too plain | T |
| Sinks his fresh tobacco stain | T |
| Just beside the deep inden | T |
| Tation of his Number | U |
| - | |
| Leaning on his icy hammer | U |
| Stands the hero of this drama | V |
| And above the wild duck's clamor | U |
| In his own peculiar grammar | U |
| With its linguistic disguises | A |
| La the Arctic prologue rises | A |
| Wall I reckon 'tain't so bad | W |
| Seein' ez 'twas all they had | W |
| - | |
| True the Springs are rather late | X |
| And early Falls predominate | X |
| But the ice crop's pretty sure | Y |
| And the air is kind o' pure | Y |
| 'Tain't so very mean a trade | Z |
| When the land is all surveyed | Z |
| There's a right smart chance for fur chase | A |
| All along this recent purchase | A |
| And unless the stories fail | K |
| Every fish from cod to whale | K |
| Rocks too mebbe quartz let's see | K |
| 'Twould be strange if there should be | K |
| Seems I've heerd such stories told | R |
| Eh why bless us yes it's gold | R |
| - | |
| While the blows are falling thick | J |
| From his California pick | J |
| You may recognize the Thor | M |
| Of the vision that I saw | S |
| Freed from legendary glamour | U |
| See the real magician's hammer | U |
Bret Harte (francis)
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