Westward Ho! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFG FHHIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPM QGFRSTUVVSS| What strength what strife what rude unrest | A |
| What shocks what half shaped armies met | B |
| A mighty nation moving west | A |
| With all its steely sinews set | B |
| Against the living forests Hear | C |
| The shouts the shots of pioneer | D |
| The rended forests rolling wheels | E |
| As if some half checked army reels | E |
| Recoils redoubles comes again | F |
| Loud sounding like a hurricane | G |
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| O bearded stalwart westmost men | F |
| So tower like so Gothic built | H |
| A kingdom won without the guilt | H |
| Of studied battle that hath been | I |
| Your blood's inheritance Your heirs | J |
| Know not your tombs the great plough shares | J |
| Cleave softly through the mellow loam | K |
| Where you have made eternal home | K |
| And set no sign Your epitaphs | L |
| Are writ in furrows Beauty laughs | L |
| While through the green ways wandering | M |
| Beside her love slow gathering | M |
| White starry hearted May time blooms | N |
| Above your lowly levelled tombs | N |
| And then below the spotted sky | O |
| She stops she leans she wonders why | O |
| The ground is heaved and broken so | P |
| And why the grasses darker grow | P |
| And droop and trail like wounded wing | M |
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| Yea Time the grand old harvester | Q |
| Has gathered you from wood and plain | G |
| We call to you again again | F |
| The rush and rumble of the car | R |
| Comes back in answer Deep and wide | S |
| The wheels of progress have passed on | T |
| The silent pioneer is gone | U |
| His ghost is moving down the trees | V |
| And now we push the memories | V |
| Of bluff bold men who dared and died | S |
| In foremost battle quite aside | S |
Joaquin Miller
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