Dairy Odes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEE EEFF GHII JJDD DDKK LLMM DDNN FFLL OPDD FFMM DDLL QRKK| The sweet milkmaid of early days | A |
| Her own household she ably sways | A |
| And her daughters now milk the cows | B |
| And her sons they now guide the plows | B |
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| These pleasing changes on a farm | C |
| Doth give to rural life a charm | C |
| Let occupation none upbraid | D |
| But honor plowman and milkmaid | D |
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| For Burns with glory did endow | D |
| And wove a garland round the plow | D |
| The source from which all wealth doth spring | E |
| And happiness to all doth bring | E |
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| Our muse it doth refuse to sing | E |
| Of cheese made early in the spring | E |
| When cows give milk from spring fodder | F |
| You cannot make a good cheddar | F |
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| The quality is often vile | G |
| Of cheese that is made in April | H |
| Therefore we think for that reason | I |
| You should make later in the season | I |
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| Cheese making now you should delay | J |
| Until about the first of May | J |
| Then cows do feed on grassy field | D |
| And rich milk they abundant yield | D |
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| Ontario cannot compete | D |
| With the Northwest in raising wheat | D |
| For cheaper there they it can grow | K |
| So price in future may be low | K |
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| Though this a hardship it may seem | L |
| Rejoice that you have got the cream | L |
| In this land of milk and honey | M |
| Where dairy farmers do make money | M |
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| Utensils must be clean and sweet | D |
| So cheese with first class can compete | D |
| And daily polish up milk pans | N |
| Take pains with vats and with milk cans | N |
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| And it is important matter | F |
| To allow no stagnant water | F |
| But water from pure well or stream | L |
| The cow must drink to give pure cream | L |
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| Canadian breeds 'tis best to pair | O |
| With breeds from the shire of Ayr | P |
| They thrive on our Canadian feed | D |
| And are for milking splendid breed | D |
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| Though 'gainst spring cheese some do mutter | F |
| Yet spring milk also makes bad butter | F |
| Then there doth arise the query | M |
| How utilize it in the dairy | M |
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| The milk it floats in great spring flood | D |
| Though it is not so rich and good | D |
| Let us be thankful for this stream | L |
| Of milk and also curds and cream | L |
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| All dairymen their highest aims | Q |
| Should be to make the vale of Thames | R |
| Where milk doth so abundant flow | K |
| Dairyland of Ontario | K |
James Mcintyre
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