The Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJCCKK LLMMNNOOPP DDDDEEDDQQDD| Snake River Country | A |
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| I now remembered slowly how I came | B |
| I sometime living sometime with a name | B |
| Creeping by iron ways across the bare | C |
| Wastes of Wyoming turning in despair | C |
| Changing and turning till the fall of night | D |
| Then throbbing motionless with iron might | D |
| Four days and nights Small stations by the way | E |
| Sunk far past midnight Nothing one can say | E |
| Names the compassion they stir in the heart | F |
| Obscure men shift and cry and we depart | F |
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| And I remembered with the early sun | G |
| That foul mouthed barber back in Pendleton | G |
| The sprawling streets the icy station bench | H |
| The Round up pennants the latrinal stench | H |
| These towns are cold by day the flesh of vice | I |
| Raw and decisive and the will precise | I |
| At night the turbulence of drink and mud | J |
| Blue glare of gas the dances dripping blood | J |
| Fists thudding murder in the shadowy air | C |
| Exhausted whores sunk to a changeless stare | C |
| Alive in empty fact alone extreme | K |
| They make each fact a mortuary dream | K |
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| Once when the train paused in an empty place | L |
| I met the unmoved landscape face to face | L |
| Smoothing abysses that no stream could slake | M |
| Deep in its black gulch crept the heavy Snake | M |
| The sound diffused and so intently firm | N |
| It seemed the silence having change nor term | N |
| Beyond the river gray volcanic stone | O |
| In rolling hills the river moved alone | O |
| And when we started charged with mass and slow | P |
| We hung against it in an awful flow | P |
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| Thus I proceeded until early night | D |
| And when I read the station s name aright | D |
| Descended at the bidding of a word | D |
| I slept the night out where the thought occurred | D |
| Then rose to view the dwelling where I lay | E |
| Outside the bare land stretching far away | E |
| The frame house new fortuitous and bright | D |
| Pointing the presence of the morning light | D |
| A train s far screaming clean as shining steel | Q |
| Planing the distance for the gliding heel | Q |
| Through shrinking frost autumnal grass uncurled | D |
| In naked sunlight on a naked world | D |
Yvor Winters
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