Antarctica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CCC C CCC DEF GCHI CDCCJ EKLMN OCPCQ RDST| Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet to provide | A |
| employment for penguins or that ice in the form of | B |
| crystals calls forth tiny sleighs | C |
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| That the orange hibiscus be associated only with deepest tropics | C |
| plankton learn to feed Baleen whales | C |
| And iron hulks off ships submit to greater Masters the elements | C |
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| Second Theories | C |
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| Another supposition projects | C |
| snowy wastes are but vapour trails of jets and tatter sails | C |
| Sleet comes only from cannonized rain galvanized by inclement ironmongers | C |
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| Yet a third hypothesizes frozen energy is stored in the | D |
| form of ice caps and that the lost amongst departed | E |
| souls are reborn with every powdery breath | F |
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| Ptolemy knew of a southern polar continent Cook | G |
| and Shackelton attempted separate conquests Ships | C |
| voyaged as early twentieth century probes amid | H |
| frozen stellar space nudging Earth's feet | I |
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| Footprints the size of muskets where left as evidence | C |
| So were a few red flags No oxygen bottles trailed the | D |
| ascent like those that packed Everest Amundsen as | C |
| to Hillary across the South Sea face yet this | C |
| Matterhorn has a logic and bedevilment all her own | J |
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| Norway and Russia claim exploration of her frigid | E |
| body The British in the first virginal thrust | K |
| christened Queen Maud Land after a brilliant | L |
| courtship Shades of Spencer and his Faery Queen | M |
| the Kron Prins Olaf Coast anyone | N |
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| Ice South of the Antipodes The floor of the world | O |
| Magnificant pack to the drunken global jaw growlers | C |
| or submerged ice packs A cold porterhouse steak to | P |
| ward off the combattive edge the chronic boxer's | C |
| inflamed orifice and eye the nosebleed's staunchest friend | Q |
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| Terra Australis Incognita the supposed southern | R |
| continent hoof of the Cenotaur stringing men like a | D |
| bow across nipples like raw wounds clotted hair and | S |
| blood on a precipice for a chest | T |
Paul Cameron Brown
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