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Lines Read At A Maple Sugar Social, April, 1888 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF FFGG HIJJ KKLL FFMM CCNN

Our first Canadian job when boyA
In the big woods we did enjoyA
Large maple bush we then did tapB
And to camp carried maple sapB
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We stored it in great wooden troughC
Then in big kettles sugared offC
Though often it did try our mettleD
To keep up fire beneath each kettleD
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For it was a serious toilE
To cut the wood to kettles boilE
To night it is a pleasant jokeF
No trouble from the fire and smokeF
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Of old we thought our neck was brokeF
By having on it a neckyokeF
And on each side a heavy pailG
Suspended from the yoke by bailG
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We waded through the snow and slushH
And stumbled o'er the logs in bushI
But no doubt the maple's sweeterJ
Than any other thing in meterJ
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Unless it is the lips of lassK
Which maple sugar doth surpassK
And may it be each young man's fateL
For to secure a charming mateL
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For birds will soon begin to singF
And seek their mates in early springF
When found each pair do feel they're blestM
When they have finished their warm nestM
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Let none at sugar making scoffC
Webster was rocked in a sap troughC
When boiling sap it is quite handyN
To pour some in snow to make candyN

James Mcintyre



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