Niagara Dry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE DCDC DFDF DDDD GHDH IFIJ| It happened once in early spring | A |
| While there did float great thick ice cakes | B |
| That then a gale did quickly bring | A |
| Them all down from the upper lakes | B |
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| And from Buffalo to Lake Erie | C |
| Across the entrance to river | D |
| It was a scene of icebergs dreary | C |
| Those who saw will remember ever | D |
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| Then gale blew up lake and river | D |
| And left Niagara almost dry | E |
| This a lady did discover | D |
| As above the Falls she cast her eye | E |
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| Such scene it had been witnessed never | D |
| Since Israelites crossed the Red Sea | C |
| When they had resolved forever | D |
| From Pharaoh's bondage to flee | C |
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| Lady she resolved to venture | D |
| Proudly carrying British flag | F |
| Erecting it in river's centre | D |
| In crevice of a rocky crag | F |
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| It seems like a romance by Bulwer | D |
| How she captured Niagara | D |
| But it was seen by Bishop Fuller | D |
| Who did at sight of flag hurrah | D |
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| Ten thousand years may die away | G |
| Before another dry can tread | H |
| In bottom of Niagara | D |
| For she doth jealous guard her bed | H |
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| But ice her entrance did blockade | I |
| And wind it kept the waters back | F |
| So that a child could almost wade | I |
| Across the brink of cataract | J |
James Mcintyre
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