Holland River And Its Tributaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FAFA GHIH JAJA KLKL MNMN OPAP ANAN QNQN| Meanderings of a stream rises twenty miles north of Toronto and sweeps around the whole of Southern Ontario | A |
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| We love to sing of tiny stream | B |
| Through the lowland meadows running | C |
| To us it is a pleasing theme | B |
| Tracing it from first beginning | C |
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| 'Tis strange how far a brook will roam | D |
| Moving onwards in its motion | E |
| And not content till it reaches home | D |
| Two thousand miles to distant ocean | E |
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| In county York springs a small brook | F |
| A few miles north of Ontario | A |
| But it doth take a wondrous crook | F |
| It northward many miles doth flow | A |
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| Brook's progress south is stopped by ridge | G |
| Doth debar its southern course | H |
| So a long journey it don't grudge | I |
| But slowly on its way doth force | H |
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| And it discharges at its mouth | J |
| Into the pure clear lake Simcoe | A |
| It still flows north for to get south | J |
| As onward still its course doth go | A |
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| Rejoicing along its way | K |
| Hundreds of miles it doth flow west | L |
| Blended in the Georgian Bay | K |
| For a moment it doth not rest | L |
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| Mingling with Huron and St Clair | M |
| Erie and Niagara river | N |
| Even at the Falls it don't despair | M |
| But it cheerful flows forever | N |
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| One thousand miles round an ox bow | O |
| It hath flowed back near its first start | P |
| To waters of Ontario | A |
| Where ridge at first kept it apart | P |
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| From south of ridge two rivers flow | A |
| Both the Don and the Humber | N |
| Embracing city of Toronto | A |
| Hath attractions without number | N |
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| The fame will spread far and wide | Q |
| First of Don and then of Humber | N |
| Improved rivers like to the Clyde | Q |
| With wharves for coal wood iron and lumber | N |
James Mcintyre
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