Canada's Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ DJDJ KKKK LMLM FLFL| Canada is a young giant | A |
| Has not yet acquired its strength | B |
| On the arts of peace reliant | A |
| Throughout its vast breadth and length | B |
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| Though 'tis not famed for orange bowers | C |
| Nor for the products of its vines | D |
| Though other lands have fairer flowers | C |
| Yet it to nobler gifts inclines | D |
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| It doth produce the golden grain | E |
| And few lands can with it compete | F |
| They often try but all in vain | E |
| To produce such splendid wheat | F |
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| Our geologists divine | G |
| That ere long we will behold | H |
| Many a rich glittering mine | G |
| Of copper silver and of gold | H |
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| But we sing more glorious theme | I |
| It is our verdant pasture land | J |
| Where cows produce a flood of cream | I |
| Doth make cheese of the finest brand | J |
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| And great thoughts oftentimes awakes | D |
| When we reflect on this wondrous land | J |
| With vast rivers and mighty lakes | D |
| All nature here's on scale so grand | J |
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| Young Dominion so gigantic | K |
| Where rail cars run at speed terrific | K |
| Thousands of miles from the Atlantic | K |
| Till in the West you reach Pacific | K |
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| From balmy breezes of lake Erie | L |
| To the far north frozen ocean | M |
| Where it now seems lone and dreary | L |
| All will yet be life and motion | M |
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| Though nation's young its powerful fleet | F |
| Doth sail on many a distant sea | L |
| For world's commerce to compete | F |
| Her sails in all climes flowing free | L |
James Mcintyre
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