The Santa-fe Trail (a Humoresque) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I asked the old Negro What is that bird that sings so well He answered That is the Rachel Jane Hasn't it another name lark or thrush or the like No Jus' Rachel Jane	A
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I IN WHICH A RACING AUTO COMES FROM THE EAST	B
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This is the order of the music of the morning	C
First from the far East comes but a crooning	C
The crooning turns to a sunrise singing	C
Hark to the calm horn balm horn psalm horn	D
Hark to the faint horn quaint horn saint horn	D
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Hark to the pace horn chase horn race horn	D
And the holy veil of the dawn has gone	E
Swiftly the brazen ear comes on	F
It burns in the East as the sunrise burns	G
I see great flashes where the far trail turns	G
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Its eyes are lamps like the eyes of dragons	H
It drinks gasoline from big red flagons	H
Butting through the delicate mists of the morning	C
It comes like lightning goes past roaring	C
It will hail all the wind mills taunting ringing	C
Dodge the cyclones	H
Count the milestones	H
On through the ranges the prairie dog tills	H
Scooting past the cattle on the thousand hills	H
Ho for the tear horn scare horn dare horn	D
Ho for the gay horn bark horn bay horn	D
Ho for Kansas land that restores us	H
When houses choke us and great books bore us	H
Sunrise Kansas harvester's Kansas	H
A million men have found you before us	H
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II IN WHICH MANY AUTOS PASS WESTWARD	I
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I want live things in their pride to remain	A
I will not kill one grasshopper vain	A
Though he eats a hole in my shirt like a door	J
I let him out give him one chance more	J
Perhaps while he gnaws my hat in his whim	K
Grasshopper lyrics occur to him	K
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I am a tramp by the long trail's border	L
Given to squalor rags and disorder	L
I nap and amble and yawn and look	M
Write fool thoughts in my grubby book	M
Recite to the children explore at my ease	H
Work when I work beg when I please	H
Give crank drawings that make folks stare	N
To the half grown boys in the sunset glare	N
And get me a place to sleep in the hay	O
At the end of a live and let live day	O
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I find in the stubble of the new cut weeds	H
A whisper and a feasting all one needs	H
The whisper of the strawberries white and red	P
Here where the new cut weeds lie dead	P
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But I would not walk all alone till I die	Q
Without some life drunk horns going by	Q
Up round this apple earth they come	R
Blasting the whispers of the morning dumb	R
Cars in a plain realistic row	S
And fair dreams fade	T
When the raw horns blow	S
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On each snapping pennant	U
A big black name	V
The careering city	W
Whence each car came	V
They tour from Memphis Atlanta Savannah	X
Tallahassee and Texarkana	X
They tour from St Louis Columbus Manistee	W
They tour from Peoria Davenport Kankakee	W
Cars from Concord Niagara Boston	Y
Cars from Topeka Emporia and Austin	Y
Cars from Chicago Hannibal Cairo	S
Cars from Alton Oswego Toledo	S
Cars from Buffalo Kokomo Delphi	Q
Cars from Lodi Carmi Loami	V
Ho for Kansas land that restores us	H
When houses choke us and great books bore us	H
While I watch the highroad	S
And look at the sky	Q
While I watch the clouds in amazing grandeur	Z
Roll their legions without rain	A
Over the blistering Kansas plain	A
While I sit by the milestone	A2
And watch the sky	Q
The United States	H
Goes by	Q
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Listen to the iron horns ripping racking	C
Listen to the quack horns slack and clacking	C
Way down the road trilling like a toad	S
Here comes the dice horn here comes the vice horn	D
Here comes the snarl horn brawl horn lewd horn	D
Followed by the prude horn bleak and squeaking	C
Some of them from Kansas some of themn from Kansas	H
Here comes the hod horn plod horn sod horn	D
Nevermore to roam horn loam horn home horn	D
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Some of them from Kansas some of them from Kansas	H
Far away the Rachel Jane	A
Not defeated by the horns	H
Sings amid a hedge of thorns	H
Love and life	B2
Eternal youth	C2
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S
Dew and glory	W
Love and truth	C2
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S
WHILE SMOKE BLACK FREIGHTS ON THE DOUBLE TRACKED RAILROAD	S
DRIVEN AS THOUGH BY THE FOUL FIEND'S OX GOAD	S
SCREAMING TO THE WEST COAST SCREAMING TO THE EAST	S
CARRY OFF A HARVEST BRING BACK A FEAST	S
HARVESTING MACHINERY AND HARNESS FOR THE BEAST	S
THE HAND CARS WHIZ AND RATTLE ON THE RAILS	H
THE SUNLIGHT FLASHES ON THE TIN DINNER PAILS	H
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And then in an instant	S
Ye modern men	D2
Behold the procession once again	D2
Listen to the iron horns ripping racking	C
Listen to the wise horn desperate to advise horn	D
Listen to the fast horn kill horn blast horn	D
Far away the Rachel Jane	A
Not defeated by the horns	H
Sings amid a hedge of thorns	H
Love and life	B2
Eternal youth	C2
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S
Dew and glory	W
Love and truth	C2
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S
The mufflers open on a score of cars	H
With wonderful thunder	L
CRACK CRACK CRACK	C
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK	C
CRACK CRACK CRACK	C
Listen to the gold horn	D
Old horn	D
Cold horn	D
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And all of the tunes till the night comes down	E2
On hay stack and ant hill and wind bitten town	E2
Then far in the west as in the beginning	C
Dim in the distance sweet in retreating	C
Hark to the faint horn quaint horn saint horn	D
Hark to the calm horn balm horn psalm horn	D
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They are hunting the goals that they understand	S
San Francisco and the brown sea sand	S
My goal is the mystery the beggars win	F2
I am caught in the web the night winds spin	F2
The edge of the wheat ridge speaks to me	W
I talk with the leaves of the mulberry tree	W
And now I hear as I sit all alone	A2
In the dusk by another big Santa Fe stone	A2
The souls of the tall corn gathering round	S
And the gay little souls of the grass in the ground	S
Listen to the tale the cotton wood tells	H
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Listen to the wind mills singing o'er the wells	H
Listen to the whistling flutes without price	H
Of myriad prophets out of paradise	H
Harken to the wonder	L
That the night air carries	H
Listen to the whisper	L
Of the prairie fairies	H
Singing o'er the fairy plain	A
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S
Love and glory	W
Stars and rain	A
Sweet sweet sweet sweet	S

Vachel Lindsay

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