Lachine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCCB DCCD ECCE AFFA CGGC AHHA IEEI CCCC CGGC HAAH JCCJ CKKC ALLAYou named it better than you knew | A |
Who called yon little town Lachine | A |
Though through the lapse of years between | A |
The then and now men jeered at you | A |
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You thought by it to find a way | B |
Through voiceful woods and shimmering lakes | C |
To where the calm Pacific breaks | C |
On weedy ledges at Cathay | B |
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In fancy you beheld yon tide | D |
Upbear a thousand argosies | C |
Whose spicy odors filled the breeze | C |
And floated far on every side | D |
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'Twas but a wish born dream men said | E |
And sneered that you were so unwise | C |
Blind scoffers Would that they could rise | C |
A few short moments from the dead | E |
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To see how through the power of man | A |
Your vision is no more a dream | F |
And learn that this majestic stream | F |
Is now the highway to Japan | A |
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From year to year with dauntless strides | C |
O'er fertile plains your sons have pressed | G |
Portaging from the East to West | G |
Between the two great ocean tides | C |
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And in their trail they drew a chain | A |
Of steel across the virgin land | H |
Uniting with this slender band | H |
The eastern and the western main | A |
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Where once the bison roamed and woke | I |
The heavens with his thunderous tread | E |
The tireless engine speeds instead | E |
And tosses high its plumes of smoke | I |
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Like spider in a web it creeps | C |
On filmy bridge o'er sparkling streams | C |
Or chasms where the sunlight gleams | C |
Part way and dies amid the deeps | C |
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It scales the rugged snow clad peaks | C |
And looks afar on East and West | G |
Then like an eagle from its nest | G |
Darts down and through the valley shrieks | C |
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It was not formed by Nature's hand | H |
This sun ward highway to Japan | A |
O'er mountain range and prairie man | A |
Has forced the path his genius planned | H |
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And Commerce universal king | J |
Has followed with unnumbered needs | C |
And scatters everywhere the seeds | C |
Of towns that in a night upspring | J |
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In tumult strange the air abounds | C |
The whirr of birds is dying out | K |
The swart mechanic's lusty shout | K |
Amid the clang of iron sounds | C |
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And streams that once unbroken ran | A |
Now on their outspread scroll reveal | L |
Written by many a sliding keel | L |
The lordly signature of man | A |
Arthur Weir
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