Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Black is the sky but the land is whiteA
O the wind the snow and the stormB
Father where is our boy to nightA
Pray to God he is safe and warmB
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Mother mother why should you fearC
Safe is he and the Arctic moonD
Over his cabin shines so clearC
Rest and sleep 'twill be morning soonD
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It's getting dark awful sudden Say this is mighty queerC
Where in the world have I got to It's still and black as a tombE
I reckoned the camp was yonder I figured the trail was hereF
Nothing Just draw and valley packed with quiet and gloomE
Snow that comes down like feathers thick and gobby and grayG
Night that looks spiteful ugly seems that I've lost my wayG
The cold's got an edge like a jackknife it must be forty belowH
Leastways that's what it seems like it cuts so fierce to the boneI
The wind's getting real ferocious it's heaving and whirling the snowH
It shrieks with a howl of fury it dies away to a moanI
Its arms sweep round like a banshee's swift and icily whiteA
And buffet and blind and beat me Lord it's a hell of a nightA
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I'm all tangled up in a blizzard There's only one thing to doJ
Keep on moving and moving it's death it's death if I restK
Oh God if I see the morning if only I struggle throughJ
I'll say the prayers I've forgotten since I lay on my mother's breastK
I seem going round in a circle maybe the camp is nearC
Say did somebody holler Was it a light I sawL
Or was it only a notion I'll shout and maybe they'll hearF
No the wind only drowns me shout till my throat is rawM
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The boys are all round the camp fire wondering when I'll be backN
They'll soon be starting to seek me they'll scarcely wait for the lightA
What will they find I wonder when they come to the end of my trackN
A hand stuck out of a snowdrift frozen and stiff and whiteA
That's what they'll strike I reckon that's how they'll find their pardA
A pie faced corpse in a snowbank curse you don't be a foolO
Play the game to the finish bet on your very last cardA
Nerve yourself for the struggle Oh you coward keep coolO
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I'm going to lick this blizzard I'm going to live the nightA
It can't down me with its bluster I'm not the kind to be beatA
On hands and knees will I buck it with every breath will I fightA
It's life it's life that I fight for never it seemed so sweetA
I know that my face is frozen my hands are numblike and deadA
But oh my feet keep a moving heavy and hard and slowH
They're trying to kill me kill me the night that's black overheadA
The wind that cuts like a razor the whipcord lash of the snowH
Keep a moving a moving don't don't stumble you foolO
Curse this snow that's a piling a purpose to block my wayG
It's heavy as gold in the rocker it's white and fleecy as woolP
It's soft as a bed of feathers it's warm as a stack of hayG
Curse on my feet that slip so my poor tired stumbling feetA
I guess they're a job for the surgeon they feel so queerlike to liftA
I'll rest them just for a moment oh but to rest is sweetA
The awful wind cannot get me deep deep down in the driftA
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Father a bitter cry I heardA
Out of the night so dark and wildA
Why is my heart so strangely stirredA
'Twas like the voice of our erring childA
Mother mother you only heardA
A waterfowl in the locked lagoonD
Out of the night a wounded birdA
Rest and sleep 'twill be morning soonD
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Who is it talks of sleeping I'll swear that somebody shookQ
Me hard by the arm for a moment but how on earth could it beR
See how my feet are moving awfully funny they lookQ
Moving as if they belonged to a someone that wasn't meR
The wind down the night's long alley bowls me down like a pinS
I stagger and fall and stagger crawl arm deep in the snowH
Beaten back to my corner how can I hope to winS
And there is the blizzard waiting to give me the knockout blowH
Oh I'm so warm and sleepy No more hunger and painT
Just to rest for a moment was ever rest such a joyU
Ha what was that I'll swear it somebody shook me againV
Somebody seemed to whisper Fight to the last my boyU
Fight That's right I must struggle I know that to rest means deathW
Death but then what does death mean ease from a world of strifeX
Life has been none too pleasant yet with my failing breathW
Still and still must I struggle fight for the gift of lifeX
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Seems that I must be dreaming Here is the old home trailY
Yonder a light is gleaming oh I know it so wellZ
The air is scented with clover the cattle wait by the railY
Father is through with the milking there goes the supper bellZ
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Mother your boy is crying out in the night and coldA
Let me in and forgive me I'll never be bad any moreA2
I'm oh so sick and so sorry please dear mother don't scoldA
It's just your boy and he wants you Mother open the doorA2
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Father father I saw a faceB2
Pressed just now to the window paneT
Oh it gazed for a moment's spaceB2
Wild and wan and was gone againV
Mother mother you saw the snowH
Drifted down from the maple treeR
Oh the wind that is sobbing soH
Weary and worn and old are weR
Only the snow and a wounded loonD
Rest and sleep 'twill be morning soonD

Robert William Service



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