George Menzies' Poems, 1883 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EAFF AAGG HHII| About one third of a century ago there flourished in Canada three Scottish editors all of whom were poets McQueen of the Huron Signal Goderich who wrote a grand song on Our Broad Lake and McGeorge of the Streetsville Review The following lines are on George Menzies who was a Woodstock editor | A |
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| One day while passing 'long the road | B |
| On a small book we almost trod | C |
| Its leaves were scattered o'er the ground | D |
| We picked them up and when we found | D |
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| The author's name it did inspire | E |
| Us with a very strong desire | A |
| To read the little volume through | F |
| For most of it to us was new | F |
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| He doth sing of land of heather | A |
| And Canadian scenes together | A |
| He did adore Niagara's roar | G |
| Where mighty flood o'er fall doth pour | G |
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| But poets lives are often brief | H |
| And he had his full share of grief | H |
| Which to his life did gloom impart | I |
| But he bore up with his brave heart | I |
James Mcintyre
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