Yukon’s Yellow Fever
Royston 1946 (Reading)
The Yukon's where gold diggers go.
An unforgiving land of ice and snow.
A place that demands the hardest and best.
A rugged and beautiful wilderness.
Come, young man and toil ‘til you're old.
Come, if you dare dig my treasures of gold.
I'll take your youth and deaden your mind,
luring you my yellow treasure to find.
Dig my permafrost the long daylight hours.
Work ‘though the storm is venting its' powers.
Do not weaken wretched man, toil the ground.
It's by sweat and blood only that gold is found.
Pan my icy streams your load of pay dirt
swilling it around though you bleed and hurt.
Each grain shall be bought by blood, guts and tears.
I'll trade a nugget for each of your years.
About this poem
Written after reading some of the poems of Robert Service
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Submitted by royston on June 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDEE FFXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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