The London Flood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOO P BBQ| From the long continuous rains | A |
| O'erflowing were the swamps and drains | A |
| For each day had its heavy shower | B |
| Torrents fell for many an hour | B |
| At London where two branches join | C |
| It seem'd two furies did combine | D |
| For to spread far both death and woe | E |
| With their wild raging overflow | E |
| E'en houses did on waters float | F |
| As though each had been built for boat | F |
| And where was health and joy and bloom | G |
| Soon naught but inmates for the tomb | G |
| Flood o'erflowed both vale and ridges | H |
| And swept railroads dams and bridges | H |
| A mother climbed in tree to save | I |
| Her infant from a watery grave | I |
| But on the house you saw its blood | J |
| Where it was crushed 'gaist tree by flood | J |
| Where cottages 'mong gardens stood | K |
| 'Tis covered o'er with vile drift wood | K |
| O'er flowers and bushes you may travel | L |
| For they are buried under gravel | L |
| Or you may walk o'er barren sand | M |
| The crops washed out and fertile land | M |
| Two funerals we at once did see | N |
| Of one family who lost three | N |
| No longer river's deep and wide | O |
| But gently flows to distant tide | O |
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| What is called in Canada a 'creek ' is Scotland called | P |
| a 'burn ' | - |
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| 'The muse nae poet ever fand her | B |
| Till by himself he learned to wander | B |
| Adown some trotting burn's meander ' BURNS | Q |
James Mcintyre
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