The Secret Of The Saguenay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EEEFGGGF HIHJKKKJ LLLEMMME NNNJOOOJ PPPQRRRQ PPPOSSSO TTTUOOOULike a fragment of torn sea kale | A |
Or a wraith of mist in the gale | A |
There comes a mysterious tale | A |
Out of the stormy past | B |
How a fleet with a living freight | C |
Once sailed through the rocky gate | C |
Of this river so desolate | D |
This chasm so black and vast | B |
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'Twas Cartier the sailor bold | E |
Whose credulous lips had told | E |
How glittering gems and gold | E |
Were found in that lonely land | F |
How out of the priceless hoard | G |
Within their rough bosoms stored | G |
These towering mountains poured | G |
Their treasures upon the strand | F |
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Allured by the greed of gain | H |
Sieur Roberval turned again | I |
And sailing across the main | H |
Passed up the St Lawrence tide | J |
He sailed by the frowning shape | K |
Of Jacques Cartier's Devil's Cape | K |
Till the Saguenay stood agape | K |
With hills upon either side | J |
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Around him the sunbeams fell | L |
On the gentle St Lawrence swell | L |
As though by some mystic spell | L |
The water was turned to gold | E |
But as he pursued they fled | M |
Till his vessels at last were led | M |
Where cold and sullen and dead | M |
The Saguenay River rolled | E |
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Chill blew the wind in his face | N |
As still on his treasure chase | N |
He entered that gloomy place | N |
Whose mountains in stony pride | J |
Still soulless merciless sheer | O |
Their adamant sides uprear | O |
Naked and brown and drear | O |
High over the murky tide | J |
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No longer the sun shone bright | P |
On the sails that full and white | P |
Like sea gulls winging their flight | P |
Dipped into the silent wave | Q |
But shadows fell thick around | R |
Till feeling and sight and sound | R |
In their awful gloom were drowned | R |
And sank in a depthless grave | Q |
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Far over the topmost height | P |
Great eagles had wheeled in flight | P |
But wrapped in the gloom of night | P |
They ceased to circle and soar | O |
Grim silence reigned over all | S |
Save that from a rocky wall | S |
A murmuring waterfall | S |
Leapt down to the river shore | O |
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O merciless walls of stone | T |
What happened that night is known | T |
By you and by you alone | T |
Though the eagles unceasing scream | U |
How once through that midnight air | O |
For an instant a trumpet's blare | O |
And the voices of men in prayer | O |
Arose from the murky stream | U |
Arthur Weir
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