The Squaw Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ABABACAC EFEFGHGI JAJAIKIK LALAAAAA MAMANONO PKQKIGIG AHAIEAEA| The cow moose comes to water and the beaver's overbold | A |
| The net is in the eddy of the stream | B |
| The teepee stars the vivid sward with russet red and gold | A |
| And in the velvet gloom the fire's a gleam | B |
| The night is ripe with quiet rich with incense of the pine | C |
| From sanctuary lake I hear the loon | D |
| The peaks are bright against the blue and drenched with sunset wine | C |
| And like a silver bubble is the moon | D |
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| Cloud high I climbed but yesterday a hundred miles around | A |
| I looked to see a rival fire a gleam | B |
| As in a crystal lens it lay a land without a bound | A |
| All lure and virgin vastitude and dream | B |
| The great sky soared exultantly the great earth bared its breast | A |
| All river veined and patterned with the pine | C |
| The heedless hordes of caribou were streaming to the West | A |
| A land of lustrous mystery and mine | C |
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| Yea mine to frame my Odyssey Oh little do they know | E |
| My conquest and the kingdom that I keep | F |
| The meadows of the musk ox where the laughing grasses grow | E |
| The rivers where the careless conies leap | F |
| Beyond the silent Circle where white men are fierce and few | G |
| I lord it and I mock at man made law | H |
| Like a flame upon the water is my little light canoe | G |
| And yonder in the fireglow is my squaw | I |
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| A squaw man yes that's what I am sneer at me if you will | J |
| I've gone the grilling pace that cannot last | A |
| With bawdry bridge and brandy Oh I've drank enough to kill | J |
| A dozen such as you but that is past | A |
| I've swung round to my senses found the place where I belong | I |
| The City made a madman out of me | K |
| But here beyond the Circle where there's neither right or wrong | I |
| I leap from life's straight jacket and I'm free | K |
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| Yet ever in the far forlorn by trails of lone desire | L |
| Yet ever in the dawn's white leer of hate | A |
| Yet ever by the dripping kill beside the drowsy fire | L |
| There comes the fierce heart hunger for a mate | A |
| There comes the mad blood clamour for a woman's clinging hand | A |
| Love humid eyes the velvet of a breast | A |
| And so I sought the Bonnet plumes and chose from out the band | A |
| The girl I thought the sweetest and the best | A |
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| O wistful women I have loved before my dark disgrace | M |
| O women fair and rare in my home land | A |
| Dear ladies if I saw you now I'd turn away my face | M |
| Then crawl to kiss your foot prints in the sand | A |
| And yet that day the rifle jammed a wounded moose at bay | N |
| A roar a charge I faced it with my knife | O |
| A shot from out the willow scrub and there the monster lay | N |
| Yes little Laughing Eyes you saved my life | O |
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| The man must have the woman and we're all brutes more or less | P |
| Since first the male ape shinned the family tree | K |
| And yet I think I love her with a husband's tenderness | Q |
| And yet I know that she would die for me | K |
| Oh if I left you Laughing Eyes and nevermore came back | I |
| God help you girl I know what you would do | G |
| I see the lake wan in the moon and from the shadow black | I |
| There drifts a little empty birch canoe | G |
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| We're here beyond the Circle where there's never wrong nor right | A |
| We aren't spliced according to the law | H |
| But by the gods I hail you on this hushed and holy night | A |
| As the mother of my children and my squaw | I |
| I see your little slender face set in the firelight glow | E |
| I pray that I may never make it sad | A |
| I hear you croon a baby song all slumber soft and low | E |
| God bless you little Laughing Eyes I'm glad | A |
Robert Service
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