The Fate Of Bass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGEGEHIHI JKJLMNMN| On the snow line of the summit stood the Spaniard's English slave | A |
| And the frighted condor westward flew afar | B |
| Where the torch of Cotopaxi lit the wide Pacific wave | A |
| And the tender moon embraced a new born star | B |
| Blanched the cheek that Austral breezes off Van Diemen's coast had tanned | C |
| Bent the form that on the deck stood stalwart there | D |
| Slim and pallid as a woman's was the sailor's sunburnt hand | C |
| And untimely silver streaked the strong man's hair | D |
| From the forest far beneath him came the baffled bloodhound's bay | E |
| From the gusty slope the camp fire's fitful glow | F |
| But the pass the Indian told of o'er the cliff beside him lay | E |
| And beyond The Mighty River's easward flow | F |
| Mine the secret of the Incas to the tyrants never told | G |
| Mine the Cloven Rock the league long Sculptured Way | E |
| Ere the weary scouts awaken ere the embers are grown cold | G |
| Ere the dogs in dreams their quarry seize and slay | E |
| Freedom's threshold yet he tarries gazes seaward southward still | H |
| Past the gulfs where fainting chain gangs toil entombed | I |
| And the furnace of the smelter taints the winds of every hill | H |
| With the fumes that swathe the dying and the doomed | I |
| Never never gallant seaman may the land that lit thy dreams | J |
| In the starless drive make glad thine eyes again | K |
| Where through tropic heavens at midnight the Antarctic glory streams | J |
| And a sea of blossom floods the wintry plain | L |
| Never more the settler's welcome at the sinking of the sun | M |
| Nor his godspeed mid the fragrant Austral morn | N |
| Shattered spent and broken hearted yet a guerdon thou hast won | M |
| And where brave souls meet thou shalt not stand forlorn | N |
Mary Hannay Foott
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