Land Clearing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK LLMM MMNN| The first winter which I did spend | A |
| In Canada was with a friend | A |
| And when the snow had passed away | B |
| Quite early in the month of May | B |
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| Friend started off for a barn raising | C |
| And told me to get stumps ablazing | C |
| Around each stump I heaped a pile | D |
| Of roots and junks of wood so vile | D |
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| For he wished the field to clear | E |
| So it a crop of wheat would rear | E |
| And there was one high withered pine | F |
| Which was full of turpentine | F |
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| As soon as I applied the torch | G |
| Blaze quick did start and it did scorch | G |
| The fences and the woods were nigh | H |
| For the old tree it blazed on high | H |
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| I was the only man or boy | I |
| Near there that day and found employ | I |
| In saving of the house and barn | J |
| Thus early fire fiend did me warn | K |
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| Fire started and with it a breeze | L |
| Carried the sparks 'mong leaves of trees | L |
| I did work hard but for recompense | M |
| All was saved but a few rails of fence | M |
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| Man in spring logging oft awakes | M |
| From winter slumbers nests of snakes | M |
| And listens to the music grand | N |
| Of bull frogs our Canadian band | N |
James Mcintyre
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