The Secret Of The Saguenay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EEEFGGGF HIHJKKKJ LLLEMMME NNNJOOOJ PPPQRRRQ PPPOSSSO TTTUOOOU

Like a fragment of torn sea kaleA
Or a wraith of mist in the galeA
There comes a mysterious taleA
Out of the stormy pastB
How a fleet with a living freightC
Once sailed through the rocky gateC
Of this river so desolateD
This chasm so black and vastB
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'Twas Cartier the sailor boldE
Whose credulous lips had toldE
How glittering gems and goldE
Were found in that lonely landF
How out of the priceless hoardG
Within their rough bosoms storedG
These towering mountains pouredG
Their treasures upon the strandF
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Allured by the greed of gainH
Sieur Roberval turned againI
And sailing across the mainH
Passed up the St Lawrence tideJ
He sailed by the frowning shapeK
Of Jacques Cartier's Devil's CapeK
Till the Saguenay stood agapeK
With hills upon either sideJ
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Around him the sunbeams fellL
On the gentle St Lawrence swellL
As though by some mystic spellL
The water was turned to goldE
But as he pursued they fledM
Till his vessels at last were ledM
Where cold and sullen and deadM
The Saguenay River rolledE
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Chill blew the wind in his faceN
As still on his treasure chaseN
He entered that gloomy placeN
Whose mountains in stony prideJ
Still soulless merciless sheerO
Their adamant sides uprearO
Naked and brown and drearO
High over the murky tideJ
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No longer the sun shone brightP
On the sails that full and whiteP
Like sea gulls winging their flightP
Dipped into the silent waveQ
But shadows fell thick aroundR
Till feeling and sight and soundR
In their awful gloom were drownedR
And sank in a depthless graveQ
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Far over the topmost heightP
Great eagles had wheeled in flightP
But wrapped in the gloom of nightP
They ceased to circle and soarO
Grim silence reigned over allS
Save that from a rocky wallS
A murmuring waterfallS
Leapt down to the river shoreO
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O merciless walls of stoneT
What happened that night is knownT
By you and by you aloneT
Though the eagles unceasing screamU
How once through that midnight airO
For an instant a trumpet's blareO
And the voices of men in prayerO
Arose from the murky streamU

Arthur Weir



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