Providential Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB BBCC DDEE FFGG BBHH IIJJ FFKK BBLL MMNO B| Providential escape of Ruby and Neil McLeod children of Angus McLeod of this town Little Neil McKay McLeod a child of three years of age was carried under a covered raceway upwards of one hundred yards the whole distance being either covered o'er with roadway buildings or ice | A |
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| A wondrous tale we now do trace | B |
| Of little children fell in race | B |
| The youngest of these little dears | B |
| The boy's age is but three years | B |
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| While coasting o'er the treacherous ice | B |
| These precious pearls of great price | B |
| The elder Ruby the daughter | C |
| Was rescued from the ice cold water | C |
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| But horrid death each one did feel | D |
| Had sure befallen little Neil | D |
| Consternation all did fill | E |
| And they cried shut down the mill | E |
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| But still no person they could tell | F |
| What had the poor child befel | F |
| The covered race so long and dark | G |
| Of hopes there scarcely seemed a spark | G |
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| Was he held fast as if in vice | B |
| Wedged 'mong the timbers and the ice | B |
| Or was there for him ample room | H |
| For to float down the narrow flume | H |
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| Had he found there a watery grave | I |
| Or borne along on crest of wave | I |
| Think of the mother's agony wild | J |
| Gazing through dark tunnel for her child | J |
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| But soon as Partlo started mill | F |
| Through crowd there ran a joyous thrill | F |
| When he was quickly borne along | K |
| The little hero of our song | K |
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| Alas of life there is no trace | B |
| And he is black all over face | B |
| Though he then seemed as if in death | L |
| Yet quickly they restored his breath | L |
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| Think now how mother H she adored | M |
| Her sweet dear child to her restored | M |
| And her boundless gratitude | N |
| Unto the author of all good | O |
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| H Mrs Mary McKay McLeod the author of some fine poems on Scottish and Canadian subjects | B |
James Mcintyre
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