Canada Before The Confederation Of The Provinces. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBBB CCDD EEDD FFGG HHII JJKK| Canadian provinces they lay | A |
| Divided by river and by bay | A |
| Many a separate division | B |
| Among them there was no cohesion | B |
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| But statesmen saw that a great nation | B |
| Could be formed by federation | B |
| And soon they led public opinion | B |
| To favor forming this Dominion | B |
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| North West with its streams and fountains | C |
| With sources in the Rocky Mountains | C |
| It was all a great mystery | D |
| Hunting for furs its history | D |
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| Though North West is filling slow | E |
| Yet soon there will be mighty flow | E |
| Millions to North West will hurry | D |
| In last decade of century | D |
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| For therein is an opening grand | F |
| In great fertile prairie land | F |
| For there the choicest wheat it grows | G |
| Near where the Saskatchewan flows | G |
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| And on many a river's branch | H |
| There is found great grazing ranch | H |
| Favoured districts therein abound | I |
| Where cattle graze all the year round | I |
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| Protected from the stormy blast | J |
| By the Rocky Mountains vast | J |
| Through canon blows no storm terrific | K |
| But balmy breezes from Pacific | K |
James Mcintyre
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