Niagara's Charms And Death Of Webb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHII JJKKLMNHOO PPPPQQFFRRKK| Gazing on rapids mighty sea | A |
| Struggling fiercely to be free | A |
| But drawn downwards in its course | B |
| By gravitation's wondrous force | B |
| O'er those perpendicular walls | C |
| Hurled 'mong mighty rocks it falls | C |
| Causing the earth to throb and shake | D |
| Like to the tremor of earthquake | D |
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| Thus the world's greatest wonder | E |
| Reverberates like peals of thunder | E |
| Enshrined 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 hand | I |
| Glories majestic and so grand | I |
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| The foaming billows soon are seen | J |
| Transformed into a beauteous green | J |
| Plunged by whirlpools dread commotion | K |
| It becomes a seething ocean | K |
| Where furies join in surging dance | L |
| From centre to circumference | M |
| This is the favorite abode | N |
| Of Neptune mightiest sea God | H |
| He hath decreed none shall survive | O |
| Who will into this vortex dive | O |
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| Webb swam the English channel brave | P |
| Like seabird he did love to lave | P |
| His breast upon the mightiest wave | P |
| Alas found here a watery grave | P |
| Torrent onward rushes frantic | Q |
| On its course to the Atlantic | Q |
| But on its way doth gently flow | F |
| Through blue lake Ontario | F |
| Rejoicing on its way it smiles | R |
| Kissing the shores of Thousand Isles | R |
| Mingling with St Lawrance motion | K |
| It soon is blended with the ocean | K |
James Mcintyre
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