Lines On Niagaras [sic] Charms And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJJK KLHMM NNNNOOFF PPJJ| Gazing on rapid's mighty sea | A |
| Struggling fiercely to be free | A |
| But drawn downward in its course | B |
| By gravitation's wonderous force | B |
| O'er those perpendicular walls | C |
| Hurled 'mong mighty rocks it falls | C |
| Causing the earth tothrob and shake | D |
| Like to the termor of earthquake | D |
| Thus the world's greatest wonder | E |
| Reverberates likes peals of thunder | E |
| Reshrined with mist and beauteous glow | F |
| Of varied tints of the rainbow | F |
| Most glorious sight the human eye | G |
| Hath ever seen beneath the sky | G |
| Along these banks none ever trod | H |
| But did feel grateful to his God | H |
| For lavishing with bounteous green | I |
| Plunged by whirlpool's dread commotion | J |
| It becomes a seething ocean | J |
| Where furies join in surging dance | K |
| From centre to circumstance | K |
| This is the favourite abode | L |
| Of Neptune mightiest sea god | H |
| He hat hdecreed none shall survive | M |
| Who will into this vortex dive | M |
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| Webb swam the English channel brave | N |
| Like sea bird he did love to lave | N |
| His breast upon the mightiest wave | N |
| Alas Found here a watery grave | N |
| Torrent onward rushes frantic | O |
| On its course to the Atlantic | O |
| But on its way doth gently flow | F |
| Through blue Lake Ontario | F |
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| Rejoicing on its way it smiles | P |
| Kissing the shores of thousand isles | P |
| Mingling with St Lawrence motion | J |
| It soon is blended with the ocean | J |
James Mcintyre
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