Out Of Siberia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBDCDEECDFDGGFGH GGGHIJKLLJGMGNNMOGOP QG| SHAKERAGS cripples gaunt and dazed | A |
| Prison broken hosts on hosts | B |
| Torture scarred and dungeon crazed | A |
| Down the convict road they pour | C |
| More and more and myriads more | C |
| Terrible as ghosts | B |
| Shuffling feet that miss the chain | D |
| Shoulders welted faces hoar | C |
| Sightless eyes that stare in vain | D |
| Writhen limbs and idiot tongue | E |
| They are old who were so young | E |
| When they passed before | C |
| Grimy from the mines a stain | D |
| And a horror on the white | F |
| Sweep of the Siberian plain | D |
| These grotesque and piteous these | G |
| Fill the earth with jubilees | G |
| Flood the skies with light | F |
| While each squalid tatter spins | G |
| At the sport of wind and snow | H |
| Russia hails her paladins | G |
| And with cheer or sob proclaims | G |
| Long unspoken hero names | G |
| Names they hardly know | H |
| They unto themselves are vague | I |
| Even as they tear the bread | J |
| That their famished fingers beg | K |
| They themselves are specters who | L |
| Melt into their retinue | L |
| Of unnumbered dead | J |
| From the shackles from the whips | G |
| Over frozen steppes they stream | M |
| Quavering songs on ghastly lips | G |
| Haggard holy caravan | N |
| Saviours of the soul of man | N |
| Martyrs of a dream | M |
| Martyrs of a dream fulfilled | O |
| Givers who have paid the price | G |
| Homing now to hearths long chilled | O |
| Guests exalted over all | P |
| At glad Freedom's festival | Q |
| Saints of sacrifice | G |
Katharine Lee Bates
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