Adventure On A Raft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBC DDEEFFBBGHIIJJ KKEELLM NNOOEEBBPQRRSSTT| The following adventure happened in the experience of an | A |
| Ingersoll man | A |
| - | |
| ' Truth is strange stranger than fiction ' | - |
| - | |
| A man rafting down the river | B |
| Time he will remember ever | B |
| He shouted ' Pole the raft to land | C |
| Or we'll be wrecked upon the strand ' | - |
| But captain gave him a reply | D |
| That all danger he would defy | D |
| But in another moment more | E |
| Part was wrecked upon the shore | E |
| Of a Nova Scotian bay | F |
| The other half was borne away | F |
| Enough to make a person shiver | B |
| Man was drifted out of river | B |
| All alone on the broken raft | G |
| Driven where e'er the wind did waft | H |
| Right out on the open sea | I |
| Where the storm did blow so free | I |
| No shelter from the wind or wave | J |
| He thought the gulf would be his grave | J |
| - | |
| He had no food life to sustain | K |
| He laid him down there to remain | K |
| What happened he did know no more | E |
| But old man on Prince Edwards shore | E |
| While gazing through his good spy glass | L |
| ' What do I see ' he cried ' Alas | L |
| Some poor man and I fear he's dead | M |
| Drifting to my humble shed ' | - |
| The body acted like a sail | N |
| And wafted raft before the gale | N |
| He called on men to man a boat | O |
| And quickly crew had it afloat | O |
| And in haste full soon they bore | E |
| His lifeless body to the shore | E |
| But old man did them then desire | B |
| To place body near the fire | B |
| And wrap it up in blankets warm | P |
| Which did act like to a charm | Q |
| soon the breath it did return | R |
| With gratitude his heart did burn | R |
| To think he was again restored | S |
| Unto his friends whom he adored | S |
| But worse misfortunes him befell | T |
| Yet he bears up 'neath troubles well | T |
James Mcintyre
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