Riding An Avalanche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLK BMNN KKDD BBOO PPQQ RRHH SSTK UUOO IIVV BBNNWith our Canadian snow shoes | A |
O'er snow you walk where'er you choose | A |
But on long shoes Norwegian | B |
They are like narrow toboggan | B |
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And all your movements you control | C |
By the aid of a stout long pole | C |
With it you balance or propel | D |
But we show now what once befell | D |
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Two miners full of pluck and game | E |
Wished to locate a mining claim | E |
On a high steep mountain crest | F |
In Colorado of the West | F |
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Though snow was deep they would attempt | G |
Their good mine for to pre empt | G |
So up the mountain they do climb | H |
Covered o'er with snow and rime | H |
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Norwegian shoes slide over the snow | I |
High and higher still they go | I |
One was two hundred yards ahead | J |
Till snow gives way where he doth tread | J |
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Which quickly starts an avalanche | K |
He seizes on a stout tree branch | K |
But all in vain he rushes fast | L |
His snow shoes in the avalanche | K |
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His friend on shoes Norwegian | B |
Like lightning down the hill he ran | M |
Or rather o'er the ice did glide | N |
Down the long steep and glassy slide | N |
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And after him the Avalanche | K |
Tearing up trees both root and branch | K |
The man on Avalanche doth yell | D |
To his friend you are doing well | D |
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With your shoes Norwegian | B |
Swifter than a toboggan | B |
Go on go on you'll win the race | O |
For we are slack'ning in our pace | O |
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But alas poor runner feels | P |
The Avalanche doth touch his heels | P |
Shall he be buried in the mass | Q |
Or will the vast pile o'er him pass | Q |
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He stops quite sudden 'neath a rock | R |
It passed o'er him with mighty shock | R |
Though it did cause him great alarm | H |
Yet still he was all safe from harm | H |
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The Avalanche yet downward slides | S |
And his friend on it he rides | S |
Until it safely him doth launch | T |
On outer edge of his own ranch | K |
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After three miles down the gulch | U |
They both might have been crushed to mulch | U |
The one he seemed to run a race | O |
While one on Avalanche did chase | O |
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But it was not for bravado | I |
One rode one run in Colorado | I |
For it was desperate the strife | V |
Each had for to secure his life | V |
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This tale of shoes Norwegian | B |
Is not for the collegian | B |
But for such youths as do take pride | N |
In reading of a wondrous slide | N |
James Mcintyre
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