Pioneers! O Pioneers! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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Come my tan faced children | B |
Follow well in order get your weapons ready | C |
Have you your pistols have you your sharp edged axes Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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For we cannot tarry here | E |
We must march my darlings we must bear the brunt of danger | F |
We the youthful sinewy races all the rest on us depend Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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O you youths western youths | G |
So impatient full of action full of manly pride and friendship | H |
Plain I see you western youths see you tramping with the foremost Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Do they droop and end their lesson wearied over there beyond the seas | I |
We take up the task eternal and the burden and the lesson Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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All the past we leave behind | J |
We debouch upon a newer mightier world varied world | K |
Fresh and strong the world we seize world of labor and the march | L |
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We detachments steady throwing | M |
Down the edges through the passes up the mountains steep | N |
Conquering holding daring venturing as we go the unknown ways Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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We primeval forests felling | M |
We the rivers stemming vexing we and piercing deep the mines within | O |
We the surface broad surveying we the virgin soil upheaving Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Colorado men are we | C |
From the peaks gigantic from the great sierras and the high plateaus | D |
From the mine and from the gully from the hunting trail we come Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Central inland race are we from Missouri with the continental blood intervein'd | K |
All the hands of comrades clasping all the Southern all the Northern Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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O resistless restless race | D |
O beloved race in all O my breast aches with tender love for all | P |
O I mourn and yet exult I am rapt with love for all | P |
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Raise the mighty mother mistress | D |
Waving high the delicate mistress over all the starry mistress bend your heads all | P |
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress stern impassive weapon'd mistress Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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See my children resolute children | B |
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter | F |
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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On and on the compact ranks | D |
With accessions ever waiting with the places of the dead quickly fill'd | K |
Through the battle through defeat moving yet and never stopping Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Are there some of us to droop and die has the hour come | Q |
Then upon the march we fittest die soon and sure the gap is fill'd Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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All the pulses of the world | K |
Falling in they beat for us with the western movement beat | K |
Holding single or together steady moving to the front all for us | D |
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Life's involv'd and varied pageants | D |
All the forms and shows all the workmen at their work | R |
All the seamen and the landsmen all the masters with their slaves Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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All the hapless silent lovers | D |
All the prisoners in the prisons all the righteous and the wicked | K |
All the joyous all the sorrowing all the living all the dying Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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I too with my soul and body | K |
We a curious trio picking wandering on our way | S |
Through these shores amid the shadows with the apparitions pressing Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Lo the darting bowling orb | T |
Lo the brother orbs around all the clustering suns and planets | D |
All the dazzling days all the mystic nights with dreams Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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These are of us they are with us | D |
All for primal needed work while the followers there in embryo wait behind | K |
We to day's procession heading we the route for travel clearing Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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O you daughters of the west | K |
O you young and elder daughters O you mothers and you wives | D |
Never must you be divided in our ranks you move united Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Shrouded bards of other lands you may sleep you have done your work | R |
Soon I hear you coming warbling soon you rise and tramp amid us Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Not for delectations sweet | K |
Not the cushion and the slipper not the peaceful and the studious | D |
Not the riches safe and palling not for us the tame enjoyment | K |
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Do the feasters gluttonous feast | K |
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep have they lock'd and bolted doors | D |
Still be ours the diet hard and the blanket on the ground Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Has the night descended | K |
Was the road of late so toilsome did we stop discouraged nodding on our way | S |
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious Pioneers O pioneers | D |
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Till with sound of trumpet | K |
Far far off the day break call hark how loud and clear I hear it wind | K |
Swift to the head of the army swift spring to your places Pioneers O pioneers | D |
Walt Whitman
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