L'envoi (songs Of A Sourdough) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JBKBLGLG MNMNOAOAYou who have lived in the Land | A |
You who have trusted the trail | B |
You who are strong to withstand | A |
You who are swift to assail | B |
Songs have I sung to beguile | C |
Vintage of desperate years | D |
Hard as a harlot's smile | C |
Bitter as unshed tears | E |
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Little of joy or mirth | F |
Little of ease I sing | G |
Sagas of men of earth | F |
Humanly suffering | G |
Such as you all have done | H |
Savagely faring forth | I |
Sons of the midnight sun | H |
Argonauts of the North | I |
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Far in the land God forgot | J |
Glimmers the lure of your trail | B |
Still in your lust are you taught | K |
Even to win is to fail | B |
Still must you follow and fight | L |
Under the vampire wing | G |
There in the long long night | L |
Hoping and vanquishing | G |
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Husbandmen of the Wild | M |
Reaping a barren gain | N |
Scourged by desire reconciled | M |
Unto disaster and pain | N |
These my songs are for you | O |
You who are seared with the brand | A |
God knows I have tried to be true | O |
Please God you will understand | A |
Robert William Service
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