The Snows. Upper Ottawa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEBBE FFGDDGDEBBE HHIJJI DEKKE AABCCBDEBBE| Over the snows | A |
| Buoyantly goes | A |
| The lumberers' bark canoe | B |
| Lightly they sweep | C |
| Wilder each leap | C |
| Bending the white caps through | B |
| Away away | D |
| With the speed of a startled deer | E |
| While the steersman true | B |
| And his laughing crew | B |
| Sing of their wild career | E |
| - | |
| Mariners glide | F |
| Far o'er the tide | F |
| In ships that are staunch and strong | G |
| Safely as they | D |
| Speed we away | D |
| Waking the woods with song | G |
| Away away | D |
| With the flight of a startled deer | E |
| While the laughing crew | B |
| Of the swift canoe | B |
| Sing of the raftsmen's cheer | E |
| - | |
| Through forest and brake | H |
| O'er rapid and lake | H |
| We're sport for the sun and rain | I |
| Free as the child | J |
| Of the Arab wild | J |
| Hardened to toil and pain | I |
| - | |
| Away away | D |
| With the speed of a startled deer | E |
| While our buoyant flight | K |
| And the rapid's might | K |
| Heighten our swift career | E |
| - | |
| Over the snows | A |
| Buoyantly goes | A |
| The lumberers' bark canoe | B |
| Lightly they sweep | C |
| Wilder each leap | C |
| Tearing the white caps through | B |
| Away away | D |
| With the speed of a startled deer | E |
| There's a fearless crew | B |
| In each light canoe | B |
| To sing of the raftsmen's cheer | E |
Charles Sangster
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