Pioneers! O Pioneers! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Come my tan faced childrenB
Follow well in order get your weapons readyC
Have you your pistols have you your sharp edged axes Pioneers O pioneersD
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For we cannot tarry hereE
We must march my darlings we must bear the brunt of dangerF
We the youthful sinewy races all the rest on us depend Pioneers O pioneersD
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O you youths western youthsG
So impatient full of action full of manly pride and friendshipH
Plain I see you western youths see you tramping with the foremost Pioneers O pioneersD
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Do they droop and end their lesson wearied over there beyond the seasI
We take up the task eternal and the burden and the lesson Pioneers O pioneersD
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All the past we leave behindJ
We debouch upon a newer mightier world varied worldK
Fresh and strong the world we seize world of labor and the marchL
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We detachments steady throwingM
Down the edges through the passes up the mountains steepN
Conquering holding daring venturing as we go the unknown ways Pioneers O pioneersD
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We primeval forests fellingM
We the rivers stemming vexing we and piercing deep the mines withinO
We the surface broad surveying we the virgin soil upheaving Pioneers O pioneersD
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Colorado men are weC
From the peaks gigantic from the great sierras and the high plateausD
From the mine and from the gully from the hunting trail we come Pioneers O pioneersD
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Central inland race are we from Missouri with the continental blood intervein'dK
All the hands of comrades clasping all the Southern all the Northern Pioneers O pioneersD
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O resistless restless raceD
O beloved race in all O my breast aches with tender love for allP
O I mourn and yet exult I am rapt with love for allP
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Raise the mighty mother mistressD
Waving high the delicate mistress over all the starry mistress bend your heads allP
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress stern impassive weapon'd mistress Pioneers O pioneersD
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See my children resolute childrenB
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falterF
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging Pioneers O pioneersD
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On and on the compact ranksD
With accessions ever waiting with the places of the dead quickly fill'dK
Through the battle through defeat moving yet and never stopping Pioneers O pioneersD
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Are there some of us to droop and die has the hour comeQ
Then upon the march we fittest die soon and sure the gap is fill'd Pioneers O pioneersD
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All the pulses of the worldK
Falling in they beat for us with the western movement beatK
Holding single or together steady moving to the front all for usD
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Life's involv'd and varied pageantsD
All the forms and shows all the workmen at their workR
All the seamen and the landsmen all the masters with their slaves Pioneers O pioneersD
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All the hapless silent loversD
All the prisoners in the prisons all the righteous and the wickedK
All the joyous all the sorrowing all the living all the dying Pioneers O pioneersD
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I too with my soul and bodyK
We a curious trio picking wandering on our wayS
Through these shores amid the shadows with the apparitions pressing Pioneers O pioneersD
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Lo the darting bowling orbT
Lo the brother orbs around all the clustering suns and planetsD
All the dazzling days all the mystic nights with dreams Pioneers O pioneersD
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These are of us they are with usD
All for primal needed work while the followers there in embryo wait behindK
We to day's procession heading we the route for travel clearing Pioneers O pioneersD
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O you daughters of the westK
O you young and elder daughters O you mothers and you wivesD
Never must you be divided in our ranks you move united Pioneers O pioneersD
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Shrouded bards of other lands you may sleep you have done your workR
Soon I hear you coming warbling soon you rise and tramp amid us Pioneers O pioneersD
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Not for delectations sweetK
Not the cushion and the slipper not the peaceful and the studiousD
Not the riches safe and palling not for us the tame enjoymentK
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Do the feasters gluttonous feastK
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep have they lock'd and bolted doorsD
Still be ours the diet hard and the blanket on the ground Pioneers O pioneersD
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Has the night descendedK
Was the road of late so toilsome did we stop discouraged nodding on our wayS
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious Pioneers O pioneersD
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Till with sound of trumpetK
Far far off the day break call hark how loud and clear I hear it windK
Swift to the head of the army swift spring to your places Pioneers O pioneersD

Walt Whitman



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