Ho For California! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEEBFFBGH EIEICJKJEEBCCBGH ALALAMAMENBOOBGH COCOFBFBAABAABGH| Rouse ye Yankees from your dreaming | A |
| See that vessel strong and bold | B |
| On her banner proudly streaming | A |
| California for gold | B |
| See a crowd around her gather | C |
| Eager all to push from land | D |
| They will have all sorts o' weather | C |
| Ere they reach the golden strand | D |
| Rouse to action | E |
| Fag and faction | E |
| Ho for mines of wealth untold | B |
| Rally Rally | F |
| All for Cali | F |
| Fornia in search of gold | B |
| Away amid the rush and racket | G |
| Ho for the California packet | H |
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| Wake ye O'er the surging ocean | E |
| Loud above each coral cave | I |
| Comes a sound of wild commotion | E |
| From the lands beyond the wave | I |
| Riches riches greater rarer | C |
| Than Golconda's far famed mines | J |
| Ho for California's shores | K |
| Where the gold so brightly shines | J |
| O'er the ocean | E |
| All's commotion | E |
| Ho for mines of wealth untold | B |
| Countless treasure | C |
| Waits on pleasure | C |
| Ho for California's gold | B |
| Let us go the rush and racket | G |
| On the Californian packet | H |
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| Hear the echo wildly ringing | A |
| Through our country far and wide | L |
| Thousands leaving home and springing | A |
| Into the resistless tide | L |
| Now our nation's roused from sleeping | A |
| All alert and wide awake | M |
| O there's no such thing as keeping | A |
| Folks asleep when gold's the stake | M |
| Old Oregon | E |
| We'll look not on | N |
| Ho for mines of wealth untold | B |
| We'll take our way | O |
| Without delay | O |
| In search of gold of glittering gold | B |
| Here we go amid the racket | G |
| On the Californian packet | H |
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| Yankees all who have the fever | C |
| Go the rush without delay | O |
| Take a spade and don your beaver | C |
| Tell your friends you must away | O |
| You will get a sight o' money | F |
| Reap perhaps a hundred fold | B |
| O it would be precious funny | F |
| To sit in a hall of gold | B |
| Let's be going | A |
| Gales are blowing | A |
| Ho all hands for digging gold | B |
| Romance throwing | A |
| Colors glowing | A |
| Round these mines of wealth untold | B |
| Ho we go amid the racket | G |
| On the Californian packet | H |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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