Men Of The High North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEDFDG HIAIJKLK AMAMANAN AOAOPQPQ RSRSBTBT| Men of the High North the wild sky is blazing | A |
| Islands of opal float on silver seas | B |
| Swift splendors kindle barbaric amazing | A |
| Pale ports of amber golden argosies | B |
| Ringed all around us the proud peaks are glowing | A |
| Fierce chiefs in council their wigwam the sky | C |
| Far far below us the big Yukon flowing | A |
| Like threaded quicksilver gleams to the eye | C |
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| Men of the High North you who have known it | D |
| You in whose hearts its splendors have abode | E |
| Can you renounce it can you disown it | D |
| Can you forget it its glory and its goad | E |
| Where is the hardship where is the pain of it | D |
| Lost in the limbo of things you've forgot | F |
| Only remain the guerdon and gain of it | D |
| Zest of the foray and God how you fought | G |
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| You who have made good you foreign faring | H |
| You money magic to far lands has whirled | I |
| Can you forget those days of vast daring | A |
| There with your soul on the Top o' the World | I |
| Nights when no peril could keep you awake on | J |
| Spruce boughs you spread for your couch in the snow | K |
| Taste all your feasts like the beans and the bacon | L |
| Fried at the camp fire at forty below | K |
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| Can you remember your huskies all going | A |
| Barking with joy and their brushes in air | M |
| You in your parka glad eyed and glowing | A |
| Monarch your subjects the wolf and the bear | M |
| Monarch your kingdom unravisht and gleaming | A |
| Mountains your throne and a river your car | N |
| Crash of a bull moose to rouse you from dreaming | A |
| Forest your couch and your candle a star | N |
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| You who this faint day the High North is luring | A |
| Unto her vastness taintlessly sweet | O |
| You who are steel braced straight lipped enduring | A |
| Dreadless in danger and dire in defeat | O |
| Honor the High North ever and ever | P |
| Whether she crown you or whether she slay | Q |
| Suffer her fury cherish and love her | P |
| He who would rule he must learn to obey | Q |
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| Men of the High North fierce mountains love you | R |
| Proud rivers leap when you ride on their breast | S |
| See the austere sky pensive above you | R |
| Dons all her jewels to smile on your rest | S |
| Children of Freedom scornful of frontiers | B |
| We who are weaklings honor your worth | T |
| Lords of the wilderness Princes of Pioneers | B |
| Let's have a rouse that will ring round the earth | T |
Robert Service
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