Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ A KLKLMM NONOMM MPMPQQ A RMRMMM MAMAMM K AKAKMM MSMSMM S MTMTHNHUVV A MWMW XSXS A EMEMMMMMGG A MYMYBABA B MMMMYMZMAA B VA2VA2BABAMM B MMMMBBMMB2C2YYD2D2E2 E2 B MMMMF2MF2MNU B AG2AG2BH2BH2PWPWMMMM I2G2 A MYMYMM MXMXNU J2XK2XNU BMBMNU A BMBMBMBMNMNML2L2

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Flat as a drum head stretch the haggard snowsB
The mighty skies are palisades of lightC
The stars are blurred the silence grows and growsB
Vaster and vaster vaults the icy nightC
Here in my sleeping bag I cower and prayD
Silence and night have pity stoop and slayD
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I have not slept for many many daysE
I close my eyes with weariness that's allF
I still have strength to feed the drift wood blazeE
That flickers weirdly on the icy wallF
I still have strength to pray God rest her soulG
Here in the awful shadow of the PoleG
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There in the cabin's alcove low she liesH
Still candles gleaming at her head and feetI
All snow drop white ash cold with closed eyesH
Lips smiling hands at rest O God how sweetI
How all unutterably sweet she seemsJ
Not dead not dead indeed she dreams she dreamsJ
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IIA
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Sunshine I called her and she brought I vowK
God's blessed sunshine to this life of mineL
I was a rover of the breed who ploughK
Life's furrow in a far flung lonely lineL
The wilderness my home my fortune castM
In a wild land of dearth barbaric vastM
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When did I see her first Long had I lainN
Groping my way to life through fevered gloomO
Sudden the cloud of darkness left my brainN
A velvet bar of sunshine pierced the roomO
And in that mellow glory aureoledM
She stood she stood all golden in its goldM
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Sunshine O miracle the earth grew gladM
Radiant each blade of grass each living thingP
What a huge strength high hope proud will I hadM
All the wide world with rapture seemed to ringP
Would she but wed me YES then fared we forthQ
Into the vast unvintageable NorthQ
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IIIA
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In Muskrat Land the conies leapR
The wavies linger in their flightM
The jewelled snakelike rivers creepR
The sun sad rogue is out all nightM
The great wood bison paws the sandM
In Muskrat Land in Muskrat LandM
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In Muskrat Land dim streams divideM
The tundras belted by the skyA
How sweet in slim canoe to glideM
And dream and let the world go byA
Build gay camp fires on greening strandM
In Muskrat Land in Muskrat LandM
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IVK
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And so we dreamed and drifted she and IA
And how she loved that free unfathomed lifeK
There in the peach bloom of the midnight skyA
The silence welded us true man and wifeK
Then North and North invincibly we pressedM
Beyond the Circle to the world's white crestM
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And on the wind flailed Arctic waste we stayedM
Dwelt with the Huskies by the Polar seaS
Fur had they white fox marten mink to tradeM
And we had food stuff bacon flour and teaS
So we made snug chummed up with all the bandM
Sudden the Winter swooped on Husky LandM
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VS
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What was that ill so sinister and dreadM
Smiting the tribe with sickness to the boneT
So that we waked one morn to find them fledM
So that we stood and stared alone aloneT
Bravely she smiled and looked into my eyesH
Laughed at their troubled stern foreboding painN
Gaily she mocked the menace of the skiesH
Turned to our cheery cabin once againU
Saying 'Twill soon be over dearest oneV
The long long night then O the sun the sunV
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VIA
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God made a heart of gold of goldM
Shining and sweet and trueW
Gave it a home of fairest mouldM
Blest it and called it YouW
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God gave the rose its grace of glowX
And the lark its radiant gleeS
But better than all I know I knowX
God gave you Heart to meS
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VIIA
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She was all sunshine in those dubious daysE
Our cabin beaconed with defiant lightM
We chattered by the friendly drift wood blazeE
Closer and closer cowered the hag like nightM
A wolf howl would have been a welcome soundM
And there was none in all that stricken landM
Yet with such silence darkness death aroundM
Learned we to love as few can understandM
Spirit with spirit fused and soul with soulG
There in the sullen shadow of the PoleG
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VIIIA
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What was that haunting horror of the nightM
Brave was she buoyant full of sunny cheerY
Why was her face so small so strangely whiteM
Then did I turn from her heart sick with fearY
Sought in my agony the outcast snowsB
Prayed in my pain to that insensate skyA
Grovelled and sobbed and cursed and then aroseB
Sunshine O heart of gold to die to dieA
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IXB
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She died on Christmas day it seems so sadM
That one you love should die on Christmas dayM
Head bowed I knelt by her O God I hadM
No tears to shed no moan no prayer to prayM
I heard her whisper Call me will you dearY
They say Death parts but I won't go awayM
I will be with you in the cabin hereZ
Oh I will plead with God to let me stayM
Stay till the Night is gone till Spring is nighA
Till sunshine comes be brave I'm tired good byeA
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XB
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For weeks for months I have not seen the sunV
The minatory dawns are leprous paleA2
The felon days malinger one by oneV
How like a dream Life is how vain how staleA2
I too am faint that vampire like diseaseB
Has fallen on me weak and cold am IA
Hugging a tiny fire in fear I freezeB
The cabin must be cold and so I tryA
To bear the frost the frost that fights decayM
The frost that keeps her beautiful alwayM
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XIB
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She lies within an icy vaultM
It glitters like a cave of saltM
All marble pure and angel sweetM
With candles at her head and feetM
Under an ermine robe she liesB
I kiss her hands I kiss her eyesB
Come back come back O Love I prayM
Into this house this house of clayM
Answer my kisses soft and warmB2
Nestle again within my armC2
Come for I know that you are nearY
Open your eyes and look my dearY
Just for a moment break the meshD2
Back from the spirit leap to fleshD2
Weary I wait the night is blackE2
Love of my life come back come backE2
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XIIB
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Last night maybe I was a little madM
For as I prayed despairful by her sideM
Such a strange antic visioning I hadM
Lo it did seem her eyes were open wideM
Surely I must have dreamed I stared once moreF2
No 'twas a candle's trick a shadow castM
There were her lashes locking as beforeF2
Oh but it filled me with a joy so vastM
No 'twas a freak a fancy of the brainN
Oh but to night I'll try again againU
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XIIIB
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It was no dream now do I know that LoveA
Leapt from the starry battlements of DeathG2
For in my vigil as I bent aboveA
Calling her name with eager burning breathG2
Sudden there came a change again I sawB
The radiance of the rose leaf stain her cheekH2
Rivers of rapture thrilled in sunny thawB
Cleft were her coral lips as if to speakH2
Curved were her tender arms as if to clingP
Open the flower like eyes of lucent blueW
Looking at me with love so pityingP
That I could fancy Heaven shining throughW
Sunshine I faltered stay with me oh stayM
Yet ere I finished in a moment's flightM
There in her angel purity she layM
Ah but I know she'll come again to nightM
Even as radiant sword leaps from the sheathI2
Soul from the body leaps we call it DeathG2
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XIVA
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Even as this line I writeM
Do I know that she is nearY
Happy am I every nightM
Comes she back to bid me cheerY
Kissing her I hold her fastM
Win her into life at lastM
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Did I dream that yesterdayM
On yon mountain ridge a glowX
Soft as moonstone paled awayM
Leaving less forlorn the snowX
Could it be the sun Oh fainN
Would I see the sun againU
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Oh to see a coral dawnJ2
Gladden to a crocus glowX
Day's a spectre dim and wanK2
Dancing on the furtive snowX
Night's a cloud upon my brainN
Oh to see the sun againU
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You who find us in this placeB
Have you pity in your breastM
Let us in our last embraceB
Under earth sun hallowed restM
Night's a claw upon my brainN
Oh to see the sun againU
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XVA
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The Sun at last the Sun I write these linesB
Here on my knees with feeble fumbling handM
Look in yon mountain cleft a radiance shinesB
Gleam of a primrose see it thrill expandM
Grow glorious Dear God be praised it streamsB
Into the cabin in a gush of goldM
Look there she stands the angel of my dreamsB
All in the radiant shimmer aureoledM
First as I saw her from my bed of painN
First as I loved her when the darkness passedM
Now do I know that Life is not in vainN
Now do I know God cares at last at lastM
Light outlives dark joy grief and Love's the sumL2
Heart of my heart Sunshine I come I comeL2

Robert Service



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