The Camp Within The West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FGHG FIJI KBAB LMNM OPQP RSTS QBUB| O DID you see a troop go by | A |
| Way weary and oppressed | B |
| Dead kisses on the drooping lip | C |
| And a dead heart in the breast | B |
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| Yea I have seen them one by one | D |
| Way weary and oppressed | B |
| And when I asked them Whither speed | E |
| They answered To the West | B |
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| And were they pale as pale could be | F |
| Death pale with haunted eyes | G |
| And did you see the hot white dust | H |
| Range round their feet and rise | G |
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| Oh they were pale as pale could be | F |
| And pale as an embered leaf | I |
| The hot white dust had risen but | J |
| They laid it with their grief | I |
| - | |
| Did no one say the way is long | K |
| And crave a little rest | B |
| Oh no they said The night is nigh | A |
| Our camp is in the West | B |
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| And did pain pierce their feet as though | L |
| The way with thorns were set | M |
| And were they visited by strange | N |
| Dark angels of regret | M |
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| Oh yea and some were mute as death | O |
| Though shot by many a dart | P |
| With them the salt of inward tears | Q |
| Went stinging through the heart | P |
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| And how are these wayfarers called | R |
| And whither do they wend | S |
| The Weary Hearted and their road | T |
| At sunset hath and end | S |
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| Shed tears for them Nay nay no tears | Q |
| They yearn for endless rest | B |
| Perhaps large stars will burn above | U |
| Their camp within the West | B |
Roderic Quinn
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