The Feet Of The Young Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF EGGG HIHIDJDJ K F LMLMANAN K F MMMMENEN K F MGMGANAN K MOMOFNPN K AAAAQRQQR EBEEEC EGGGNow the Four way Lodge is opened now the Hunting Winds are loose | A |
Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain | B |
Now the Young Men's hearts are troubled for the whisper of the Trues | A |
Now the Red Gods make their medicine again | C |
Who hath seen the beaver busied Who hath watched the black tail mating | D |
Who hath lain alone to hear the wild goose cry' | E |
Who hath worked the chosen water where the ouananiche is waiting | D |
Or the sea trout's jumping crazy for the fly | F |
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He must go go go away from here | E |
On the other side the world he's overdue | G |
'Send your road is clear before you where the old Spring fret comes o'er you | G |
And the Red Gods call for you | G |
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So for one the wet sail arching through the rainbow round the bow | H |
And for one the creak of snow shoes on the crust | I |
And for one the lakeside lilies where the bull moose waits the cow | H |
And for one the mule train coughing in the dust | I |
Who hath smelt smelt smoke at twilight Who hath heard the birch log burning | D |
Who is quick to read the noises of the night | J |
Let him follow with the others for the Young Men's feet are turning | D |
Too the camps of proved desire and known delight | J |
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Let him go go etc | K |
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I | F |
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Do you know the blackened timber do you know that racing stream | L |
With the raw right angled log jam at the end | M |
And the bar of sun warmed shingle where a man may bask and dream | L |
To the click of shod canoe poles round the bend' | M |
I is there that we are going with our rods and reels and traces | A |
To a silent smoky Indian that we know | N |
To a couch of new pulled hemlock with the starlight on our faces | A |
For the Red Gods call us out and we must go | N |
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They must go go etc | K |
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II | F |
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Do you know the shallow Baltic where the seas are steep and short | M |
Where the bluff lee boarded fishing luggers ride | M |
Do you know the joy of threshing leagues to leeward of your port | M |
On a coast you've lost the chart of overside | M |
It is there that I am going with an extra hand to bale her | E |
Just one able 'long shore loafer that I know | N |
He can take his chance of drowning while I sail and sail and sail her | E |
For the Red Gods call me out and I must go | N |
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He must go go etc | K |
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III | F |
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Do you know the pile built village where the sago dealers trade | M |
Do you know the reek of fish and wet bamboo | G |
Do you know the steaming stillness of the orchid scented glade | M |
When the blazoned bird winged butterflies flap through | G |
It is there that I am going with my camphor net and boxes | A |
To a gentle yellow pirate that I know | N |
To my little wailing lemurs to my palms and flying foxes | A |
For the Red Gods call me out and I must go | N |
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He must go go etc | K |
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Do you know the world's white roof tree do you know that windy rift | M |
Where the baffling mountain eddies chop and change | O |
Do you know the long day's patience belly down on frozen drift | M |
While the head of heads is feeding out of range | O |
It is there that I am going where the boulders and the snow lie | F |
With a trusty nimble tracker that I know | N |
I have sworn an oath to keep it on the Horns of Ovis Poli | P |
And the Red Gods call me out and I must go | N |
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He must go go etc | K |
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How the Four way Lodge is opened now the Smokes of Council rise | A |
Pleasant smokes ere yet 'twixt trail and trail they choose | A |
Now the girths and ropes are tested now they pack their last supplies | A |
Now our Young Men go to dance before the Trues | A |
Who shall meet them at those altars who shall light them to that shrine | Q |
Velvet footed who shall guide them to their goal | R |
Unto each the voice and vision unto each his spoor and sign | Q |
Lonely mountain in the Northland misty sweat bath 'neath the Line | Q |
And to each a man that knows his naked soul | R |
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White or yellow black or copper he is waiting as a lover | E |
Smoke of funnel dust of hooves or beat of train | B |
Where the high grass hides the horseman or the glaring flats discover | E |
Where the steamer hails the landing or the surf boat brings the rover | E |
Where the rails run out in sand rift Quick ah heave the camp kit over | E |
For the Red Gods make their medicine again | C |
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And we go go go away from here | E |
On the other side the world we're overdue | G |
'Send the road is clear before you when the old Spring fret comes o'er you | G |
And the Red Gods call for you | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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