The Spell Of The Yukon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADAEAE EFEFGHGH DIDIGJGJ KDKDLDLD MNMNOPOP LQLQLDLD RSRTUVUV GUGUKLKL| I wanted the gold and I sought it | A |
| I scrabbled and mucked like a slave | B |
| Was it famine or scurvy I fought it | A |
| I hurled my youth into a grave | B |
| I wanted the gold and I got it | A |
| Came out with a fortune last fall | C |
| Yet somehow life's not what I thought it | A |
| And somehow the gold isn't all | C |
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| No There's the land Have you seen it | A |
| It's the cussedest land that I know | D |
| From the big dizzy mountains that screen it | A |
| To the deep deathlike valleys below | D |
| Some say God was tired when He made it | A |
| Some say it's a fine land to shun | E |
| Maybe but there's some as would trade it | A |
| For no land on earth and I'm one | E |
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| You come to get rich damned good reason | E |
| You feel like an exile at first | F |
| You hate it like hell for a season | E |
| And then you are worse than the worst | F |
| It grips you like some kinds of sinning | G |
| It twists you from foe to a friend | H |
| It seems it's been since the beginning | G |
| It seems it will be to the end | H |
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| I've stood in some mighty mouthed hollow | D |
| That's plumb full of hush to the brim | I |
| I've watched the big husky sun wallow | D |
| In crimson and gold and grow dim | I |
| Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming | G |
| And the stars tumbled out neck and crop | J |
| And I've thought that I surely was dreaming | G |
| With the peace o' the world piled on top | J |
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| The summer no sweeter was ever | K |
| The sunshiny woods all athrill | D |
| The grayling aleap in the river | K |
| The bighorn asleep on the hill | D |
| The strong life that never knows harness | L |
| The wilds where the caribou call | D |
| The freshness the freedom the farness | L |
| O God how I'm stuck on it all | D |
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| The winter the brightness that blinds you | M |
| The white land locked tight as a drum | N |
| The cold fear that follows and finds you | M |
| The silence that bludgeons you dumb | N |
| The snows that are older than history | O |
| The woods where the weird shadows slant | P |
| The stillness the moonlight the mystery | O |
| I've bade 'em good by but I can't | P |
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| There's a land where the mountains are nameless | L |
| And the rivers all run God knows where | Q |
| There are lives that are erring and aimless | L |
| And deaths that just hang by a hair | Q |
| There are hardships that nobody reckons | L |
| There are valleys unpeopled and still | D |
| There's a land oh it beckons and beckons | L |
| And I want to go back and I will | D |
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| They're making my money diminish | R |
| I'm sick of the taste of champagne | S |
| Thank God when I'm skinned to a finish | R |
| I'll pike to the Yukon again | T |
| I'll fight and you bet it's no sham fight | U |
| It's hell but I've been there before | V |
| And it's better than this by a damnsite | U |
| So me for the Yukon once more | V |
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| There's gold and it's haunting and haunting | G |
| It's luring me on as of old | U |
| Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting | G |
| So much as just finding the gold | U |
| It's the great big broad land 'way up yonder | K |
| It's the forests where silence has lease | L |
| It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder | K |
| It's the stillness that fills me with peace | L |
Robert Service
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