Champlain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEFEGGE HIHIFFI JKJKLLK MNMNOON PQPRSSR RTRTRRT EUEUVVU HWHWUUW| Would that with the bold Champlain | A |
| And his comrades staunch and true | B |
| I had crossed the stormy main | A |
| Golden visions to pursue | B |
| And had shared | C |
| Their lot and dared | C |
| Fortune with that hardy crew | B |
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| Thus I murmur as I close | D |
| Parkman day being long since sped | E |
| Yet in vain I seek repose | F |
| For the stirring words I read | E |
| In the sage's | G |
| Learned pages | G |
| Still are ringing in my head | E |
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| All the perils of the sea | H |
| All the dangers of the land | I |
| Of the waves that hungrily | H |
| Leapt round Champlain's stalwart band | I |
| Of the foes | F |
| That round him rose | F |
| Numerous as the ocean sand | I |
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| Every trial he underwent | J |
| Winter's famine and disease | K |
| Weeks in dreary journey spent | J |
| Battle treason capture these | K |
| Sweep my mind | L |
| As sweeps the wind | L |
| Sighing through the forest trees | K |
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| Wandering through the tangled brakes | M |
| Where the treacherous Indians hide | N |
| Launching upon crystal lakes | M |
| Stemming Uttawa's dark tide | N |
| Still my sight | O |
| Pursues his flight | O |
| Through the desert far and wide | N |
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| With the sunlight in his face | P |
| I behold him as he plants | Q |
| At Cape Diamond's rugged base | P |
| In the glorious name of France | R |
| Yon fair town | S |
| That still looks down | S |
| On the river's broad expanse | R |
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| I behold him as he hurls | R |
| Proud defiance at the foe | T |
| And the fleur de lys unfurls | R |
| High o'er Admiral Kirkt below | T |
| Till he slips | R |
| With all his ships | R |
| Down the river sad and slow | T |
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| And I see him lying dead | E |
| On that dreary Christmas day | U |
| While the priests about his bed | E |
| Weeping kneel and softly pray | U |
| As the bell | V |
| Rings out its knell | V |
| For a great soul passed away | U |
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| Yes a gallant man was he | H |
| That brave hearted old French tar | W |
| Whose great name through history | H |
| Shines on us as from afar | W |
| Through the gray | U |
| Of dawning day | U |
| Gleams the glorious Morning Star | W |
Arthur Weir
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