The Throwback Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCD EFGFHICI JKLKMNLN OPQPRSTS UIRIVDRD VIRIKKWR| He was born far east of the Rockies | A |
| Of a pet in society's van | B |
| A wine soaked daughter of pleasure | C |
| Bred back and threw a man | B |
| A man child who grew up a stranger | C |
| Who never could learn the way | D |
| Of a people who gauge their pleasure | C |
| On a line with the price they pay | D |
| - | |
| Just a shred of an education | E |
| A few years of college life | F |
| A course in the card and wine room | G |
| A year with a chorus girl wife | F |
| Then disgust with a life unnatural | H |
| Spurred on with the curse of the go | I |
| He quitted that life forever | C |
| For the land of the gold and snow | I |
| - | |
| The Lure of the Land had gripped him | J |
| The Land where you die if you fail | K |
| The Land of the fabled fortunes | L |
| The Land of the endless trail | K |
| The Land of the lonely silence | M |
| The Land of the cruel cold | N |
| The Land of the lost ambitions | L |
| Alaska the Land of gold | N |
| - | |
| There winters of long hungry hardships | O |
| Summers of pest ridden heat | P |
| Dicing with death for a grub stake | Q |
| Risking his life for meat | P |
| Tossing away his young manhood | R |
| Giving the best of his youth | S |
| To the holes that he bedrocked on wildcats | T |
| Where gold was scarcer than truth | S |
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| Ten years spent in Alaska | U |
| Gray haired with cheeks all atan | I |
| Beaten but still unconquered | R |
| Flat broke but still a man | I |
| Digging and sinking and drifting | V |
| Trying to locate the pay | D |
| With each hole a fresh disappointment | R |
| Yet hoping to strike it next day | D |
| - | |
| Scorning the letters recalling | V |
| Forgetting the friends he had known | I |
| Turning his back on the Outside | R |
| Facing the future alone | I |
| A Cabin a Squaw and a Fishwheel | K |
| A bend in the river's flow | K |
| A band of half naked breed kids | W |
| He stayed there a sourdough | R |
Pat O'cotter
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