De Salaberry At Chateauguay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI HJHJ KHKL HMHM LNLN OAOA HPHP LQLQ ABAB HRHS ALAL HHHH FTFT ABAB LHLH FUFU FVFV HNHN KJKJ FHFH LTLTWe are scarcely one to seven | A |
But our cause is just | B |
Help us in our trial heaven | A |
Keep the ford we must | B |
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Swiftly through the reeds and rushes | C |
Pours the Outarde flood | D |
Turned by sunset's rosy flushes | E |
To a stream of blood | D |
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Sprinkled with the hues of slaughter | F |
Wave the forest trees | G |
Gently o'er the sparkling water | F |
In the autumn breeze | G |
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Strange that Nature should remind us | H |
Of the coming fight | I |
Let it come it will but find us | H |
Battling for the right | I |
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Never shall the land that gave us | H |
Birth be held a thrall | J |
Ere the Stars and Stripes enslave us | H |
Death shall have us all | J |
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Quickly in this silent dingle | K |
Raise the abatis | H |
Near where Outarde waters mingle | K |
With the Chateauguay | L |
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Hasten Night across the meadows | H |
Kiss the streams to sleep | M |
Wrap us in thy cloak of shadows | H |
Bid the stars not peep | M |
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Night has passed the birds awaking | L |
Greet the dawning day | N |
Wherefore are our foemen making | L |
Such a long delay | N |
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Hark at last they come now steady | O |
Wait the signal gun | A |
When I fire fire you Now ready | O |
Fire Ah lads well done | A |
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Like a vaulted wave that shatters | H |
On a rocky coast | P |
And in mist and salt spray scatters | H |
Breaks the mighty host | P |
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Like the wave that swift returning | L |
Bursts upon the strand | Q |
Falls the foe with hatred burning | L |
On our little band | Q |
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We are scarcely one to seven | A |
But our cause is just | B |
Help us in our trial heaven | A |
Keep the ford we must | B |
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Fall the shot clipped leaves about us | H |
Like the summer rain | R |
Charge the bitter foes to rout us | H |
Ever and again | S |
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Quarter never asked nor given | A |
Still we beat them back | L |
Though our slender ranks are riven | A |
With each fierce attack | L |
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Long the fearful battle rages | H |
Death his harvest reaps | H |
He will live in history's pages | H |
In the grave who sleeps | H |
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Round us stronger ever stronger | F |
Sweeps the hostile horde | T |
If the strife continue longer | F |
We shall lose the ford | T |
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We are scarcely one to seven | A |
But our cause is just | B |
Help us in our trial heaven | A |
Keep the ford we must | B |
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Hope The fox when worn with running | L |
Subtlety must use | H |
Let us strive to win by cunning | L |
What by force we lose | H |
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Bugler seek the forest border | F |
Whence our friends should come | U |
For attack sound loud the order | F |
Beat upon the drum | U |
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So our foes may think in error | F |
That our friends are nigh | V |
And disturbed by sudden terror | F |
From the conflict fly | V |
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Through the wood the bugler dashes | H |
Far beyond the fray | N |
While the deadly musket flashes | H |
Point him on his way | N |
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Faintly o'er the din of battle | K |
On the ear there fall | J |
From afar a drum's sharp rattle | K |
And a bugle call | J |
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Through the forest drawing nearer | F |
Ring the bugle notes | H |
And the drum beat quicker clearer | F |
On the calm air floats | H |
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Cheer my lads and cease from firing | L |
Sheathe the blood stained sword | T |
For our foemen are retiring | L |
We have kept the ford | T |
Arthur Weir
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