The Polar Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA BCBCB DD| UNCONQUERABLY men venture on the quest | A |
| And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed | A |
| Cold virgin awful Scorning ease and rest | A |
| And heedless of the heroes who have failed | A |
| They face the ice floes with a dauntless zest | A |
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| The polar quest Life s offer to the strong | B |
| To pass beyond the pale to do and dare | C |
| Leaving a name that stirs us like a song | B |
| And making captive some strange Otherwhere | C |
| Though grim the conquest and the labor long | B |
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| Forever courage kindles faith moves forth | D |
| To find the mystic floodway of the North | D |
Richard Francis Burton
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