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 boy | A |
| In the big woods we did enjoy | A |
| Large maple bush we then did tap | B |
| And to camp carried maple sap | B |
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| We stored it in great wooden trough | C |
| Then in big kettles sugared off | C |
| Though often it did try our mettle | D |
| To keep up fire beneath each kettle | D |
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| For it was a serious toil | E |
| To cut the wood to kettles boil | E |
| To night it is a pleasant joke | F |
| No trouble from the fire and smoke | F |
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| Of old we thought our neck was broke | F |
| By having on it a neckyoke | F |
| And on each side a heavy pail | G |
| Suspended from the yoke by bail | G |
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| We waded through the snow and slush | H |
| And stumbled o'er the logs in bush | I |
| But no doubt the maple's sweeter | J |
| Than any other thing in meter | J |
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| Unless it is the lips of lass | K |
| Which maple sugar doth surpass | K |
| And may it be each young man's fate | L |
| For to secure a charming mate | L |
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| For birds will soon begin to sing | F |
| And seek their mates in early spring | F |
| When found each pair do feel they're blest | M |
| When they have finished their warm nest | M |
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| Let none at sugar making scoff | C |
| Webster was rocked in a sap trough | C |
| When boiling sap it is quite handy | N |
| To pour some in snow to make candy | N |
James Mcintyre
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