The Song My Paddle Sings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEEAAFFFGGHH IIIJJKKKDDLLLMMNNNDD LLLJJOOOHHGGG| West wind blow from your prairie nest | A |
| Blow from the mountains blow from the west | A |
| The sail is idle the sailor too | B |
| O wind of the west we wait for you | B |
| Blow blow | C |
| I have wooed you so | C |
| But never a favour you bestow | C |
| You rock your cradle the hills between | D |
| But scorn to notice my white lateen | D |
| I stow the sail unship the mast | E |
| I wooed you long but my wooing's past | E |
| My paddle will lull you into rest | A |
| O drowsy wind of the drowsy west | A |
| Sleep sleep | F |
| By your mountain steep | F |
| Or down where the prairie grasses sweep | F |
| Now fold in slumber your laggard wings | G |
| For soft is the song my paddle sings | G |
| August is laughing across the sky | H |
| Laughing while paddle canoe and I | H |
| Drift drift | I |
| Where the hills uplift | I |
| On either side of the current swift | I |
| The river rolls in its rocky bed | J |
| My paddle is plying its way ahead | J |
| Dip dip | K |
| While the water flip | K |
| In foam as over their breast we slip | K |
| And oh the river runs swifter now | D |
| The eddies circle about my bow | D |
| Swirl swirl | L |
| How the ripples curl | L |
| In many a dangerous pool awhirl | L |
| And forward far the rapids roar | M |
| Fretting their margin for evermore | M |
| Dash dash | N |
| With a mighty crash | N |
| They seethe and boil and bound and splash | N |
| Be strong O paddle be brave canoe | D |
| The reckless waves you must plunge into | D |
| Reel reel | L |
| On your trembling keel | L |
| But never a fear my craft will feel | L |
| We've raced the rapid we're far ahead | J |
| The river slips through its silent bed | J |
| Sway sway | O |
| As the bubbles spray | O |
| And fall in tinkling tunes away | O |
| And up on the hills against the sky | H |
| A fir tree rocking its lullaby | H |
| Swings swings | G |
| Its emerald wings | G |
| Swelling the song that my paddle sings | G |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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