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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