90 North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKDL MNOP QRST GIUV WXUY VGUZ E| At home in my flannel gown like a bear to its floe | A |
| I clambered to bed up the globe's impossible sides | B |
| I sailed all night mdash till at last with my black beard | C |
| My furs and my dogs I stood at the northern pole | D |
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| There in the childish night my companions lay frozen | E |
| The stiff fur knocked at my starveling throat | F |
| And I gave my great sigh the flakes came huddling | G |
| Were they really my end In the darkness I turned to my rest | H |
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| mdash Here the flag snaps in the glare and silence | I |
| Of the unbroken ice I stand here | J |
| The dogs bark my beard is black and I stare | K |
| At the North Pole | D |
| And now what Why go back | L |
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| Turn as I please my step is to the south | M |
| The world mdash my world spins on this final point | N |
| Of cold and wretchedness all lines all winds | O |
| End in this whirlpool I at last discover | P |
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| And it is meaningless In the child's bed | Q |
| After the night's voyage in that warm world | R |
| Where people work and suffer for the end | S |
| That crowns the pain mdash in that Cloud Cuckoo Land | T |
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| I reached my North and it had meaning | G |
| Here at the actual pole of my existence | I |
| Where all that I have done is meaningless | U |
| Where I die or live by accident alone mdash | V |
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| Where living or dying I am still alone | W |
| Here where North the night the berg of death | X |
| Crowd me out of the ignorant darkness | U |
| I see at last that all the knowledge | Y |
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| I wrung from the darkness mdash that the darkness flung me mdash | V |
| Is worthless as ignorance nothing comes from nothing | G |
| The darkness from the darkness Pain comes from the darkness | U |
| And we call it wisdom It is pain | Z |
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| Anonymous submission | E |
Randall Jarrell
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