Riding An Avalanche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLK BMNN KKDD BBOO PPQQ RRHH SSTK UUOO IIVV BBNN

With our Canadian snow shoesA
O'er snow you walk where'er you chooseA
But on long shoes NorwegianB
They are like narrow tobogganB
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And all your movements you controlC
By the aid of a stout long poleC
With it you balance or propelD
But we show now what once befellD
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Two miners full of pluck and gameE
Wished to locate a mining claimE
On a high steep mountain crestF
In Colorado of the WestF
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Though snow was deep they would attemptG
Their good mine for to pre emptG
So up the mountain they do climbH
Covered o'er with snow and rimeH
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Norwegian shoes slide over the snowI
High and higher still they goI
One was two hundred yards aheadJ
Till snow gives way where he doth treadJ
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Which quickly starts an avalancheK
He seizes on a stout tree branchK
But all in vain he rushes fastL
His snow shoes in the avalancheK
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His friend on shoes NorwegianB
Like lightning down the hill he ranM
Or rather o'er the ice did glideN
Down the long steep and glassy slideN
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And after him the AvalancheK
Tearing up trees both root and branchK
The man on Avalanche doth yellD
To his friend you are doing wellD
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With your shoes NorwegianB
Swifter than a tobogganB
Go on go on you'll win the raceO
For we are slack'ning in our paceO
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But alas poor runner feelsP
The Avalanche doth touch his heelsP
Shall he be buried in the massQ
Or will the vast pile o'er him passQ
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He stops quite sudden 'neath a rockR
It passed o'er him with mighty shockR
Though it did cause him great alarmH
Yet still he was all safe from harmH
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The Avalanche yet downward slidesS
And his friend on it he ridesS
Until it safely him doth launchT
On outer edge of his own ranchK
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After three miles down the gulchU
They both might have been crushed to mulchU
The one he seemed to run a raceO
While one on Avalanche did chaseO
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But it was not for bravadoI
One rode one run in ColoradoI
For it was desperate the strifeV
Each had for to secure his lifeV
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This tale of shoes NorwegianB
Is not for the collegianB
But for such youths as do take prideN
In reading of a wondrous slideN

James Mcintyre



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