Fragment Of An Ode To Canada Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FFGGGGGGGGGGG HIGGJJKKAA GGGGLMNNKKG DDODOPPQRSSTTU VVVVVQQWX| This is the land | A |
| It lies outstretched a vision of delight | B |
| Bent like a shield between the silver seas | C |
| It flashes back the hauteur of the sun | D |
| Yet teems with humblest beauties still a part | E |
| Of its Titanic and ebullient heart | E |
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| Land of the glacial lonely mountain ranges | F |
| Where nothing haps save vast onian changes | F |
| The slow moraine the avalanche's wings | G |
| Summer and Sun the elemental things | G |
| Pulses of Awe Winter and Night and the lightnings | G |
| Land of the pines that rear their dusky spars | G |
| A ready midnight for the earliest stars | G |
| The land of rivers rivulets and rills | G |
| Straining incessant everyway to the sea | G |
| With their white thunder harnessed in the mills | G |
| Turning one wealth to another wealth perpetually | G |
| Spinning the lightning with dynamic spindles | G |
| Till some far city dowered with fire enkindles | G |
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| The land of fruit fine flavoured with the frost | H |
| Land of the cattle the deep chested host | I |
| The happy souled that contemplate the hours | G |
| Their dew laps buried in the grass and flowers | G |
| And O the myriad miracle of the grain | J |
| Cresting the hill brimming the level plain | J |
| The miracle of the flower and milk and kernel | K |
| Nurtured by sun fire and frost fire supernal | K |
| Until the farmer turns it in his hand | A |
| The million millioned miracle of the land | A |
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| And yet with all these pastoral and heroic graces | G |
| Our simplest flowers wear the loveliest faces | G |
| The sparrows are our most enraptured singers | G |
| And round their songs the fondest memory lingers | G |
| Our forests tower and tremble star enchanted | L |
| Their roots are by the timid spirits haunted | M |
| Of hermit thrushes tranc d is the air | N |
| Ever in doubt when they shall sing or where | N |
| The mountains may with ice and avalanche wrestle | K |
| Far down their rugged steeps dimple and nestle | K |
| The still translucent turquoise hearted tarns | G |
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| And Thou O Power that 'stablishest the Nation | D |
| Give wisdom in the midst of our elation | D |
| Who are so free that we forget we are | O |
| That freedom brings the deepest obligation | D |
| Grant us this presage for a guiding star | O |
| To lead the van of Peace not with a craven spirit | P |
| But with the consciousness that we inherit | P |
| What built the Empire out of blood and fire | Q |
| And can smite too in passion and with ire | R |
| Purge us of Pride who are so quick in vaunting | S |
| Thy gift this land that is in nothing wanting | S |
| Give Mind to match the glory of the gift | T |
| Give great Ideals to bridge the sordid rift | T |
| Between our heritage and our use of it | U |
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| Then in some day of terror for the world | V |
| When all the flags of the Furies are unfurled | V |
| When Truth and Justice wildered and unknit | V |
| Shall turn for help to this young radiant land | V |
| We shall be quick to see and understand | V |
| What shall we answer in that stricken hour | Q |
| Shall the deep thought be pregnant then with power | Q |
| Shall the few words spring swift and grave and clear | W |
| Use well the present moment They shall hear | X |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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