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

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i 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 iA
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i I IN WHICH A RACING AUTO COMES FROM THE EAST iA
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This is the order of the music of the morningB
First from the far East comes but a crooningB
The crooning turns to a sunrise singingB
Hark to the calm horn balm horn psalm hornC
Hark to the faint horn quaint horn saint hornC
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Hark to the pace horn chase horn race hornC
And the holy veil of the dawn has goneD
Swiftly the brazen ear comes onE
It burns in the East as the sunrise burnsF
I see great flashes where the far trail turnsF
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Its eyes are lamps like the eyes of dragonsG
It drinks gasoline from big red flagonsG
Butting through the delicate mists of the morningB
It comes like lightning goes past roaringB
It will hail all the wind mills taunting ringingB
Dodge the cyclonesG
Count the milestonesG
On through the ranges the prairie dog tillsG
Scooting past the cattle on the thousand hillsG
Ho for the tear horn scare horn dare hornC
Ho for the gay horn bark horn bay hornC
Ho for Kansas land that restores usG
When houses choke us and great books bore usG
Sunrise Kansas harvester's KansasG
A million men have found you before usG
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i II IN WHICH MANY AUTOS PASS WESTWARD iA
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I want live things in their pride to remainH
I will not kill one grasshopper vainH
Though he eats a hole in my shirt like a doorI
I let him out give him one chance moreI
Perhaps while he gnaws my hat in his whimJ
Grasshopper lyrics occur to himJ
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I am a tramp by the long trail's borderK
Given to squalor rags and disorderK
I nap and amble and yawn and lookL
Write fool thoughts in my grubby bookL
Recite to the children explore at my easeG
Work when I work beg when I pleaseG
Give crank drawings that make folks stareM
To the half grown boys in the sunset glareM
And get me a place to sleep in the hayN
At the end of a live and let live dayN
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I find in the stubble of the new cut weedsG
A whisper and a feasting all one needsG
The whisper of the strawberries white and redO
Here where the new cut weeds lie deadO
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But I would not walk all alone till I dieA
Without some life drunk horns going byA
Up round this apple earth they comeP
Blasting the whispers of the morning dumbP
Cars in a plain realistic rowQ
And fair dreams fadeR
When the raw horns blowQ
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On each snapping pennantS
A big black nameT
The careering cityU
Whence each car cameT
They tour from Memphis Atlanta SavannahV
Tallahassee and TexarkanaV
They tour from St Louis Columbus ManisteeU
They tour from Peoria Davenport KankakeeU
Cars from Concord Niagara BostonW
Cars from Topeka Emporia and AustinW
Cars from Chicago Hannibal CairoQ
Cars from Alton Oswego ToledoQ
Cars from Buffalo Kokomo DelphiA
Cars from Lodi Carmi LoamiT
Ho for Kansas land that restores usG
When houses choke us and great books bore usG
While I watch the highroadQ
And look at the skyA
While I watch the clouds in amazing grandeurX
Roll their legions without rainH
Over the blistering Kansas plainH
While I sit by the milestoneY
And watch the skyA
The United StatesG
Goes byA
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Listen to the iron horns ripping rackingB
Listen to the quack horns slack and clackingB
Way down the road trilling like a toadQ
Here comes the dice horn here comes the vice hornC
Here comes the snarl horn brawl horn lewd hornC
Followed by the prude horn bleak and squeakingB
Some of them from Kansas some of themn from KansasG
Here comes the hod horn plod horn sod hornC
Nevermore to roam horn loam horn home hornC
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Some of them from Kansas some of them from KansasG
Far away the Rachel JaneH
Not defeated by the hornsG
Sings amid a hedge of thornsG
Love and lifeZ
Eternal youthA2
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ
Dew and gloryU
Love and truthA2
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ
WHILE SMOKE BLACK FREIGHTS ON THE DOUBLE TRACKED RAILROADQ
DRIVEN AS THOUGH BY THE FOUL FIEND'S OX GOADQ
SCREAMING TO THE WEST COAST SCREAMING TO THE EASTQ
CARRY OFF A HARVEST BRING BACK A FEASTQ
HARVESTING MACHINERY AND HARNESS FOR THE BEASTQ
THE HAND CARS WHIZ AND RATTLE ON THE RAILSG
THE SUNLIGHT FLASHES ON THE TIN DINNER PAILSG
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And then in an instantQ
Ye modern menB2
Behold the procession once againB2
Listen to the iron horns ripping rackingB
Listen to the wise horn desperate to advise hornC
Listen to the fast horn kill horn blast hornC
Far away the Rachel JaneH
Not defeated by the hornsG
Sings amid a hedge of thornsG
Love and lifeZ
Eternal youthA2
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ
Dew and gloryU
Love and truthA2
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ
The mufflers open on a score of carsG
With wonderful thunderK
CRACK CRACK CRACKB
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACKB
CRACK CRACK CRACKB
Listen to the gold hornC
Old hornC
Cold hornC
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And all of the tunes till the night comes downC2
On hay stack and ant hill and wind bitten townC2
Then far in the west as in the beginningB
Dim in the distance sweet in retreatingB
Hark to the faint horn quaint horn saint hornC
Hark to the calm horn balm horn psalm hornC
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They are hunting the goals that they understandQ
San Francisco and the brown sea sandQ
My goal is the mystery the beggars winD2
I am caught in the web the night winds spinD2
The edge of the wheat ridge speaks to meU
I talk with the leaves of the mulberry treeU
And now I hear as I sit all aloneY
In the dusk by another big Santa Fe stoneY
The souls of the tall corn gathering roundQ
And the gay little souls of the grass in the groundQ
Listen to the tale the cotton wood tellsG
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Listen to the wind mills singing o'er the wellsG
Listen to the whistling flutes without priceG
Of myriad prophets out of paradiseG
Harken to the wonderK
That the night air carriesG
Listen to the whisperK
Of the prairie fairiesG
Singing o'er the fairy plainH
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ
Love and gloryU
Stars and rainH
Sweet sweet sweet sweetQ

Vachel Lindsay



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