Prairie Greyhounds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCB DEEED FGGGF A HIIIH JKKKL AMMMA| C P R NO WESTBOUND | A |
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| I swing to the sunset land | B |
| The world of prairie the world of plain | C |
| The world of promise and hope and gain | C |
| The world of gold and the world of grain | C |
| And the world of the willing hand | B |
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| I carry the brave and bold | D |
| The one who works for the nation's bread | E |
| The one whose past is a thing that's dead | E |
| The one who battles and beats ahead | E |
| And the one who goes for gold | D |
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| I swing to the Land to Be | F |
| I am the power that laid its floors | G |
| I am the guide to its western stores | G |
| I am the key to its golden doors | G |
| That open alone to me | F |
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| C P R NO EASTBOUND | A |
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| I swing to the land of morn | H |
| The grey old east with its grey old seas | I |
| The land of leisure the land of ease | I |
| The land of flowers and fruits and trees | I |
| And the place where we were born | H |
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| Freighted with wealth I come | J |
| For he who many a moon has spent | K |
| Far out west on adventure bent | K |
| With well worn pick and a folded tent | K |
| Is bringing his bullion home | L |
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| I never will be renowned | A |
| As my twin that swings to the western marts | M |
| For I am she of the humbler parts | M |
| But I am the joy of the waiting hearts | M |
| For I am the Homeward bound | A |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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