Manitoba Childe Roland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMIKLLNOP ENQRSTEBUVQWVXSS YZNBNEA2B2C2AD2QH| LAST night a January wind was ripping at the shingles | A |
| over our house and whistling a wolf song under the | B |
| eaves | C |
| I sat in a leather rocker and read to a six year old girl | D |
| the Browning poem Childe Roland to the Dark | E |
| Tower Came | F |
| And her eyes had the haze of autumn hills and it was | G |
| beautiful to her and she could not understand | H |
| A man is crossing a big prairie says the poem and | I |
| nothing happens and he goes on and on and it's | J |
| all lonesome and empty and nobody home | K |
| And he goes on and on and nothing happens and he | L |
| comes on a horse's skull dry bones of a dead horse | M |
| and you know more than ever it's all lonesome and | I |
| empty and nobody home | K |
| And the man raises a horn to his lips and blows he | L |
| fixes a proud neck and forehead toward the empty | L |
| sky and the empty land and blows one last wonder | N |
| cry | O |
| And as the shuttling automatic memory of man clicks | P |
| off its results willy nilly and inevitable as the snick | E |
| of a mouse trap or the trajectory of a centimetre | N |
| projectile | Q |
| I flash to the form of a man to his hips in snow drifts | R |
| of Manitoba and Minnesota in the sled derby run | S |
| from Winnipeg to Minneapolis | T |
| He is beaten in the race the first day out of Winnipeg | E |
| the lead dog is eaten by four team mates and the | B |
| man goes on and on running while the other racers | U |
| ride running while the other racers sleep | V |
| Lost in a blizzard twenty four hours repeating a circle | Q |
| of travel hour after hour fighting the dogs who | W |
| dig holes in the snow and whimper for sleep | V |
| pushing on running and walking five hundred | X |
| miles to the end of the race almost a winner one | S |
| toe frozen feet blistered and frost bitten | S |
| - | |
| And I know why a thousand young men of the North | Y |
| west meet him in the finishing miles and yell cheers | Z |
| I know why judges of the race call him a winner | N |
| and give him a special prize even though he is a | B |
| loser | N |
| I know he kept under his shirt and around his thudding | E |
| heart amid the blizzards of five hundred miles that | A2 |
| one last wonder cry of Childe Roland and I told | B2 |
| the six year old girl about it | C2 |
| And while the January wind was ripping at the shingles | A |
| and whistling a wolf song under the eaves her eyes | D2 |
| had the haze of autumn hills and it was beautiful | Q |
| to her and she could not understand | H |
Carl Sandburg
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