A Canadian Trooper To His Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG HHIIAAJJKK

Rest here my horse the night is dull the blood sick stars are goneA
Listen for thou like me wert bred in far SaskatchewanA
And this September night at home under a happier skyB
The bursting yellow sheaves upon the unbounded prairie lieB
Bread bread the staff and stay of life 'tis what the wheatlands yieldC
But only death and agony are gathered from this fieldC
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There's respite now but ah good friend before another dayD
Although our bodies may be here we we how far awayD
We've ridden many a weary mile together we have foughtE
For Freedom honor and the right and anything we've wroughtE
Our Country to the Empire will still more closely bindF
Ah where the reddened maple leaf is fluttering in the windF
There is my heart oh noble horse and may we gallop freeG
Some day again in Canada our Land of LibertyG
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The night drags on toward the dawn and far on yonder plainH
I hear the throb of musketry I feel its echoing painH
I see the star shells breaking and nearer than their flareI
A wreath of deadly smoke points out that once a town was thereI
Look brother horse the night is past and glorious is the dawnA
Away with peril We'll ride on for our SaskatchewanA
With day comes hope and though again the sky with blood is redJ
We'll ride against the enemy for Victory lies aheadJ
Aye for the Empire Victory that thou shalt help to bringK
And for the Allies Victory on earth what greater thingK

Helen Leah Reed



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