Canada, 1882 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABAB CDCCDCD EFEEFEF GHGGIGJ KLKKLKL| Are hearts here strong enough to found | A |
| A glorious people's sway | B |
| Ask of our rivers as they bound | A |
| From hill to plain or ocean sound | A |
| If they are strong to day | B |
| If weakness in their floods be found | A |
| Then may ye answer Nay | B |
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| Is union yours may foeman's might | C |
| Your love ne'er break or chain | D |
| Go see if o'er our land the flight | C |
| Of Spring be stayed by blast or blight | C |
| If Fall bring never grain | D |
| If Summer suns deny their light | C |
| Then may our hope be vain | D |
| - | |
| Yet far too cramped the narrow space | E |
| Your country's rule can own | F |
| Ah travel all its bounds and trace | E |
| Each Alp unto its fertile base | E |
| Our realm of forests lone | F |
| Our world of prairie like the face | E |
| Of ocean hardly known | F |
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| Yet for the arts to find a shrine | G |
| Too rough I ween and rude | H |
| Yea if you find no flower divine | G |
| With prairie grass or hardy pine | G |
| No lilies with the wood | I |
| Or on the water meadows' line | G |
| No purple Iris' flood | J |
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| You deem a nation here shall stand | K |
| United great and free | L |
| Yes see how Liberty's own hand | K |
| With ours the continent hath spanned | K |
| Strong arched from sea to sea | L |
| Our Canada's her chosen land | K |
| Her roof and crown to be | L |
John Campbell
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