Dead In The Sierras Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD EFGF BHIH JKLK BBBB| His footprints have failed us | A |
| Where berries are red | B |
| And madro ntilde os are rankest | B |
| The hunter is dead | B |
| - | |
| The grizzly may pass | C |
| By his half open door | D |
| May pass and repass | C |
| On his path as of yore | D |
| - | |
| The panther may crouch | E |
| In the leaves on his limb | F |
| May scream and may scream | G |
| It is nothing to him | F |
| - | |
| Prone bearded and breasted | B |
| Like columns of stone | H |
| And tall as a pine | I |
| As a pine overthrown | H |
| - | |
| His camp fires gone | J |
| What else can be done | K |
| Than let him sleep on | L |
| Till the light of the sun | K |
| - | |
| Ay tombless what of it | B |
| Marble is dust | B |
| Cold and repellent | B |
| And iron is rust | B |
Joaquin Miller
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