United By Steel Rails Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFH IJKJ FLFL MNMN OKOP OKOK QRQR| When Indian tribes in the Northwest | A |
| Rebelled against the Eastern laws | B |
| Canadian courage it did test | A |
| All were united in the cause | C |
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| But how shall volunteers proceed | D |
| Such distance several thousand miles | E |
| Will they in their dark hour of need | D |
| Ask Uncle Sam with pleasant smiles | E |
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| For to allow our volunteers | F |
| To pass o'er their north railroad | G |
| Perhaps subject to doubts and fears | F |
| Where British soldiers never trod | H |
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| But there went up a glad hurrah | I |
| When it was found that in our land | J |
| Almost finished was railway | K |
| And trains do wait for word command | J |
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| To bear away our volunteers | F |
| To those far North distant lands | L |
| But dispelled were all their fears | F |
| When they rode over those steel bands | L |
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| Which bound young nation all in one | M |
| Before detached and all apart | N |
| Shoulder to shoulder now each one | M |
| Feels patriot feelings in his heart | N |
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| First time we truly realize | O |
| The value of this great railway | K |
| Its benefits each now doth prize | O |
| Highway to Japan and Australia | P |
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| The policy it has proved wise | O |
| Which did build this great railway | K |
| The vast Northwest to colonize | O |
| And bear its products far away | K |
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| Canadian flags are now unfurled | Q |
| In the ports of the Chinese | R |
| Short route to Oriental world | Q |
| Gives Canada her cheap fine teas | R |
James Mcintyre
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