The Klondike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD AAEFDD GGHIDD JJKLDD AAMNDD OOPLQQ OORSEE TTUVDD WWRQDD MMMXDD MMDYQQ MMRQDD| Never mind the day we left or the day the women clung to us | A |
| All we need now is the last way they looked at us | A |
| Never mind the twelve men there amid the cheering | B |
| Twelve men or one man 't will soon be all the same | C |
| For this is what we know we are five men together | D |
| Five left o' twelve men to find the golden river | D |
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| Far we came to find it out but the place was here for all of us | A |
| Far far we came and here we have the last of us | A |
| We that were the front men we that would be early | E |
| We that had the faith and the triumph in our eyes | F |
| We that had the wrong road twelve men together | D |
| Singing when the devil sang to find the golden river | D |
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| Say the gleam was not for us but never say we doubted it | G |
| Say the wrong road was right before we followed it | G |
| We that were the front men fit for all forage | H |
| Say that while we dwindle we are front men still | I |
| For this is what we know tonight we're starving here together | D |
| Starving on the wrong road to find the golden river | D |
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| Wrong we say but wait a little hear him in the corner there | J |
| He knows more than we and he'll tell us if we listen there | J |
| He that fought the snow sleep less than all the others | K |
| Stays awhile yet and he knows where he stays | L |
| Foot and hand a frozen clout brain a freezing feather | D |
| Still he's here to talk with us and to the golden river | D |
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| Flow he says and flow along but you cannot flow away from us | A |
| All the world's ice will never keep you far from us | A |
| Every man that heeds your call takes the way that leads him | M |
| The one way that's his way and lives his own life | N |
| Starve or laugh the game goes on and on goes the river | D |
| Gold or no they go their way twelve men together | D |
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| Twelve he says who sold their shame for a lure you call too fair for them | O |
| You that laugh and flow to the same word that urges them | O |
| Twelve who left the old town shining in the sunset | P |
| Left the weary street and the small safe days | L |
| Twelve who knew but one way out wide the way or narrow | Q |
| Twelve who took the frozen chance and laid their lives on yellow | Q |
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| Flow by night and flow by day nor ever once be seen by them | O |
| Flow freeze and flow till time shall hide the bones of them | O |
| Laugh and wash their names away leave them all forgotten | R |
| Leave the old town to crumble where it sleeps | S |
| Leave it there as they have left it shining in the valley | E |
| Leave the town to crumble down and let the women marry | E |
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| Twelve of us or five he says we know the night is on us now | T |
| Five while we last and we may as well be thinking now | T |
| Thinking each his own thought knowing when the light comes | U |
| Five left or none left the game will not be lost | V |
| Crouch or sleep we go the way the last way together | D |
| Five or none the game goes on and on goes the river | D |
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| For after all that we have done and all that we have failed to do | W |
| Life will be life and a world will have its work to do | W |
| Every man who follows us will heed in his own fashion | R |
| The calling and the warning and the friends who do not know | Q |
| Each will hold an icy knife to punish his heart's lover | D |
| And each will go the frozen way to find the golden river | D |
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| There you hear him all he says and the last we'll ever get from him | M |
| Now he wants to sleep and that will be the best for him | M |
| Let him have his own way no you needn't shake him | M |
| Your own turn will come so let the man sleep | X |
| For this is what we know we are stalled here together | D |
| Hands and feet and hearts of us to find the golden river | D |
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| And there's a quicker way than sleep Never mind the looks of him | M |
| All he needs now is a finger on the eyes of him | M |
| You there on the left hand reach a little over | D |
| Shut the stars away or he'll see them all night | Y |
| He'll see them all night and he'll see them all tomorrow | Q |
| Crawling down the frozen sky cold and hard and yellow | Q |
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| Won't you move an inch or two to keep the stars away from him | M |
| No he won't move and there's no need of asking him | M |
| Never mind the twelve men never mind the women | R |
| Three while we last we'll let them all go | Q |
| And we'll hold our thoughts north while we starve here together | D |
| Looking each his own way to find the golden river | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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