A Providential Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEEE EEFF GGH IJKK EELL MMNN HHOO EEPP QQRS TUAA| Providential escape of Ruby and Niel McLeod children of Angus McLeod | A |
| Ingersoll little Neil McKay McLeod a child three years of age was carried | B |
| under a covered raceway upwards of one hundred yards the whole distance | C |
| being either covered over with roadway buildings or ice | D |
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| A wonderous tale we now do trace | E |
| Of little children fell in race | E |
| The youngest of these little dears | E |
| The boy's age is but three years | E |
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| While coasting o'er the treacherous ice | E |
| precious pearls of great price | E |
| The elder Ruby the daughter | F |
| Was rescued from the ice cold water | F |
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| But horrid death each one did feel | G |
| Had sure befallen poor little Neil | G |
| Consternation did people fill | H |
| And they cried 'shut down the mill ' | - |
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| But still no person yet could tell | I |
| What had the poor child befel sic | J |
| The covered race so long and dark | K |
| Of hopes there scarcely seemed a spark | K |
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| Was he held fast as if in vice | E |
| Wedged 'mong the timbers and the ice | E |
| Or was there for him ample room | L |
| For to float down the narrow flume | L |
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| Had he found there a watery grave | M |
| Or been borne on crest of wave | M |
| Think of the mothers agony wild | N |
| Gazing through dark tunnel for her child | N |
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| But soon as Partlo started mill | H |
| Through crowd there ran a joyous thrill | H |
| When he was quickly borne along | O |
| The little hero of our song | O |
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| Alas of life there is no trace | E |
| And be is black all over face | E |
| Though he then seemed as if in death | P |
| Yet quickly they restored his breath | P |
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| Think now how mother she adored | Q |
| Her sweet dear child to her restored | Q |
| And her boundless gratitude | R |
| Unto the author of all good | S |
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| Swept through dark passage 'neath the road | T |
| Saved only by the hand of God | U |
| No wonder Father now feels proud | A |
| Of little Niel McKay McLeod | A |
James Mcintyre
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