The Call Of The Wild Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE AFAFGHGH HIHIGHJH HKHKLHMH NHNHOAOA| Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on | A |
| Set pieces and drop curtain scenes galore | B |
| Big mountains heaved to heaven which the blinding sunsets blazon | A |
| Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar | B |
| Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it | C |
| Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost | D |
| Have you strung your soul to silence Then for God's sake go and do it | C |
| Hear the challenge learn the lesson pay the cost | E |
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| Have you wandered in the wilderness the sagebrush desolation | A |
| The bunch grass levels where the cattle graze | F |
| Have you whistled bits of rag time at the end of all creation | A |
| And learned to know the desert's little ways | F |
| Have you camped upon the foothills have you galloped o'er the ranges | G |
| Have you roamed the arid sun lands through and through | H |
| Have you chummed up with the mesa Do you know its moods and changes | G |
| Then listen to the Wild it's calling you | H |
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| Have you known the Great White Silence not a snow gemmed twig aquiver | H |
| Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies | I |
| Have you broken trail on snowshoes mushed your huskies up the river | H |
| Dared the unknown led the way and clutched the prize | I |
| Have you marked the map's void spaces mingled with the mongrel races | G |
| Felt the savage strength of brute in every thew | H |
| And though grim as hell the worst is can you round it off with curses | J |
| Then hearken to the Wild it's wanting you | H |
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| Have you suffered starved and triumphed groveled down yet grasped at glory | H |
| Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole | K |
| Done things just for the doing letting babblers tell the story | H |
| Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul | K |
| Have you seen God in His splendors heard the text that nature renders | L |
| You'll never hear it in the family pew | H |
| The simple things the true things the silent men who do things | M |
| Then listen to the Wild it's calling you | H |
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| They have cradled you in custom they have primed you with their preaching | N |
| They have soaked you in convention through and through | H |
| They have put you in a showcase you're a credit to their teaching | N |
| But can't you hear the Wild it's calling you | H |
| Let us probe the silent places let us seek what luck betide us | O |
| Let us journey to a lonely land I know | A |
| There's a whisper on the night wind there's a star agleam to guide us | O |
| And the Wild is calling calling let us go | A |
Robert Service
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