Between The Rapids Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGHGIJIJKK LMLMNONOPP DQRQFSHSTT BUBUVDVDWW XDXDYOYORD ZWZWVEVEDD| The point is turned the twilight shadow fills | A |
| The wheeling stream the soft receding shore | B |
| And on our ears from deep among the hills | A |
| Breaks now the rapid's sudden quickening roar | B |
| Ah yet the same or have they changed their face | C |
| The fair green fields and can it still be seen | D |
| The white log cottage near the mountain's base | C |
| So bright and quiet so home like and serene | D |
| Ah well I question for as five years go | E |
| How many blessings fall and how much woe | E |
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| Aye there they are nor have they changed their cheer | F |
| The fields the hut the leafy mountain brows | G |
| Across the lonely dusk again I hear | H |
| The loitering bells the lowing of the cows | G |
| The bleat of many sheep the stilly rush | I |
| Of the low whispering river and through all | J |
| Soft human tongues that break the deepening hush | I |
| With faint heard song or desultory call | J |
| Oh comrades hold the longest reach is past | K |
| The stream runs swift and we are flying fast | K |
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| The shore the fields the cottage just the same | L |
| But how with them whose memory makes them sweet | M |
| Oh if I called them hailing name by name | L |
| Would the same lifts the same old shouts repeat | M |
| Have the rough years so big with death and ill | N |
| Gone lightly by and left them smiling yet | O |
| Wild black eyed Jeanne whose tongue was never still | N |
| Old wrinkled Picaud Pierre and pale Lisette | O |
| The homely hearts that never cared to range | P |
| While life's wide fields were filled with rush and change | P |
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| And where is Jacques and where is Verginie | D |
| I cannot tell the fields are all a blur | Q |
| The lowing cows whose shapes I scarcely see | R |
| Oh do they wait and do they call for her | Q |
| And is she changed or is her heart still clear | F |
| As wind or morning light as river foam | S |
| Or have life's changes borne her far from here | H |
| And far from rest and far from help and home | S |
| Ah comrades soft and let us rest awhile | T |
| For arms grow tired with paddling many a mile | T |
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| The woods grow wild and from the rising shore | B |
| The cool wind creeps the faint wood odours steal | U |
| Like ghosts down the rivers blackening floor | B |
| The misty fumes begin to creep and reel | U |
| Once more I leave you wandering toward the night | V |
| Sweet home sweet heart that would have held me in | D |
| Whither I go I know not and the light | V |
| Is faint before and rest is hard to win | D |
| Ah sweet ye were and near to heaven's gate | W |
| But youth is blind and wisdom comes too late | W |
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| Blacker and loftier grow the woods and hark | X |
| The freshening roar The chute is near us now | D |
| And dim the canyon grows and inky dark | X |
| The water whispering from the birchen prow | D |
| One long last look and many a sad adieu | Y |
| While eyes can see and heart can feel you yet | O |
| I leave sweet home and sweeter hearts to you | Y |
| A prayer for Picaud one for pale Lisette | O |
| A kiss for Pierre my little Jacques and thee | R |
| A sigh for Jeanne a sob for Verginie | D |
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| Oh does she still remember Is the dream | Z |
| Now dead or has she found another mate | W |
| So near so dear and ah so swift the stream | Z |
| Even now perhaps it were not yet too late | W |
| But oh what matter for before the night | V |
| Has reached its middle we have far to go | E |
| Bend to your paddles comrades see the light | V |
| Ebbs off apace we must not linger so | E |
| Aye thus it is Heaven gleams and then is gone | D |
| Once twice it smiles and still we wander on | D |
Archibald Lampman
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