L'ordre De Bon Temps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL AMAMNOPO QJQJRSRS TUTUVOVO RWRXYZA2Z B2C2B2C2VD2VD2| When Champlain with his faithful band | A |
| Came o'er the stormy wave | B |
| To dwell within this lonely land | A |
| Their hearts were blithe as brave | B |
| And Winter by their mirth beguiled | C |
| Forgot his sterner mood | D |
| As by the prattling of a child | C |
| A churl may be subdued | D |
| - | |
| Among the company there came | E |
| A dozen youths of rank | F |
| Who in their eager search for fame | E |
| From no adventure shrank | F |
| But with the lightness of their race | G |
| That hardship laughs to scorn | H |
| Pursued the pleasures of the chase | G |
| 'Till night from early morn | H |
| - | |
| And soon their leader full of mirth | I |
| And politic withal | J |
| Well knowing that no spot on earth | I |
| Could hold them long in thrall | J |
| Unless into their company | K |
| Its duties and its sport | L |
| Were introduced the pageantry | K |
| And etiquette of court | L |
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| Enrolled them in a titled band | A |
| L'Ordre de Bon Temps named | M |
| First knighthood's grade for which this land | A |
| Of Canada is famed | M |
| Each one in turn Grand Master was | N |
| At close of day released | O |
| His duty to maintain the laws | P |
| And furnish forth a feast | O |
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| Filled with a pardonable pride | Q |
| In nobles wont to dwell | J |
| Each with his predecessor vied | Q |
| In bounty to excel | J |
| And thus it was the festive board | R |
| With beaver otter deer | S |
| And fish and fowl was richly stored | R |
| Throughout the changing year | S |
| - | |
| At mid day for our sires of old | T |
| Dined when the sun was high | U |
| To where the cloth was spread behold | T |
| These merry youths draw nigh | U |
| Each bearing on a massy tray | V |
| Some dainty for the feast | O |
| While the Grand Master leads the way | V |
| Festivity's high priest | O |
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| Then seated round the banquet board | R |
| Afar from friends and home | W |
| They drank from goblets freely poured | R |
| To happier days to come | X |
| And once again in story shone | Y |
| The sun that erst in France | Z |
| Was wont in days long past and gone | A2 |
| Amid the vines to dance | Z |
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| Still later when the sun had set | B2 |
| And round the fire they drew | C2 |
| To sing or tell a tale ere yet | B2 |
| Too old the evening grew | C2 |
| He who had ruled them for the day | V |
| His sceptre did resign | D2 |
| And drink to his successor's sway | V |
| A brimming cup of wine | D2 |
Arthur Weir
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