The Prospector Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHFHIJKJLMNM IOGOMMMMMIPIQRSRMTNT NUKUNVWVXIYIVVXVVZXZ| Where the ragged snow capped saw tooth | A |
| Cuts the azure of the sky | B |
| And watches o'er the lonely land | C |
| As ages wander by | B |
| Where the sentinel pines in grandeur | D |
| Murmur to the glacier stream | E |
| As it ice gorged gluts the canyon | F |
| Never brightened by the gleam | E |
| Of sun at brightest noon day | G |
| Nor moon of Arctic night | H |
| And whose only link with Heaven | F |
| Is the fitful Northern Light | H |
| Where the Whistler shrills in triumph | I |
| And the Big Horn dreams in peace | J |
| Where the Brown Bear skulks to cover | K |
| Up where silence holds the lease | J |
| Where the land is as God left it | L |
| Nor has known the tread of man | M |
| There's a treasure ledge a waiting | N |
| Go and find it if you can | M |
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| If your heart be steeled to triumph | I |
| Nor beats less at your defeat | O |
| Can you watch your whole world melt away | G |
| And still smiling fortune greet | O |
| Will your heart and brain and sinew | M |
| Crowd you on when hunger's pain | M |
| Gnaws your belly and you're beaten | M |
| Can you lose and fight again | M |
| Can you raise the cup of fortune | M |
| To your lips and bravely quaff | I |
| The draught she has prepared for you | P |
| And win or lose and laugh | I |
| Can you see the fruits of hardships | Q |
| Centered on one desperate throw | R |
| And know Fate's dice are loaded | S |
| Nor curse to see them go | R |
| Then take your burden up again | M |
| And stagger up the trail | T |
| You're bound to make a winning | N |
| Cause you don't know how to fail | T |
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| I who've spent my youth in following | N |
| The lure of hidden gold | U |
| Must pass the buck to Nature | K |
| And admit I'm growing old | U |
| And yet each spring I hear it calling | N |
| And it's music to my ears | V |
| The call of lonely places | W |
| That I've listened to for years | V |
| It's cost me all most men hold dear | X |
| Some forty years of life | I |
| And all the joys that others get | Y |
| In babies home and wife | I |
| My life's been all to morrows | V |
| And my family only dreams | V |
| And to the average plodder | X |
| I've missed it all it seems | V |
| Still I've never taken orders | V |
| And I've always liked the game | Z |
| And if life could be lived over | X |
| Why I'd live it just the same | Z |
Pat O'cotter
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