The Pass Of The Sierra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFBGBHIJIK LBLBMNMNOPQPRSRSHTHT HUHU| ALL night above their rocky bed | A |
| They saw the stars march slow | B |
| The wild Sierra overhead | A |
| The desert's death below | B |
| The Indian from his lodge of bark | C |
| The gray bear from his den | D |
| Beyond their camp fire's wall of dark | C |
| Glared on the mountain men | D |
| Still upward turned with anxious strain | E |
| Their leader's sleepless eye | F |
| Where splinters of the mountain chain | E |
| Stood black against the sky | F |
| The night waned slow at last a glow | B |
| A gleam of sudden fire | G |
| Shot up behind the walls of snow | B |
| And tipped each icy spire | H |
| 'Up men ' he cried 'yon rocky cone | I |
| To day please God we'll pass | J |
| And look from Winter's frozen throne | I |
| On Summer's flowers and grass ' | K |
| They set their faces to the blast | L |
| They trod the eternal snow | B |
| And faint worn bleeding hailed at last | L |
| The promised land below | B |
| Behind they saw the snow cloud tossed | M |
| By many an icy horn | N |
| Before warm valleys wood embossed | M |
| And green with vines and corn | N |
| They left the Winter at their backs | O |
| To flap his baffled wing | P |
| And downward with the cataracts | Q |
| Leaped to the lap of Spring | P |
| Strong leader of that mountain band | R |
| Another task remains | S |
| To break from Slavery's desert land | R |
| A path to Freedom's plains | S |
| The winds are wild the way is drear | H |
| Yet flashing through the night | T |
| Lo icy ridge and rocky spear | H |
| Blaze out in morning light | T |
| Rise up Fr mont and go before | H |
| The Hour must have its Man | U |
| Put on the hunting shirt once more | H |
| And lead in Freedom's van | U |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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