Legend Of The Canadian Robin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CCCC GHGH EIEI FJFJ JKJK LMLM NOOO COCO EFEF COCO CPCP CQCR COCO FOFO| Is it Man alone who merits | A |
| Immortality or death | B |
| Each created thing inherits | A |
| Equal air and common breath | B |
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| Souls pass onward some are ranging | C |
| Happy hunting grounds and some | D |
| Are as joyous though in changing | C |
| Form be altered language dumb | D |
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| Beauteous all if fur or feather | E |
| Strength or gift of song be theirs | F |
| He who planted all together | E |
| Equally their fate prepares | F |
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| Like to Time that dies not living | C |
| Through the change the seasons bring | C |
| So men dying are but giving | C |
| Life to some fleet foot or wing | C |
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| Bird and beast the Savage cherished | G |
| But the Robins loved he best | H |
| O'er the grave where he has perished | G |
| They shall thrive and build their nest | H |
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| Hunted by the white invader | E |
| Vanish ancient races all | I |
| Yet no ruthless foe or trader | E |
| Silences the songster's call | I |
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| For the white man too rejoices | F |
| Welcoming Spring's herald bird | J |
| When the ice breaks and the voices | F |
| From the rushing streams are heard | J |
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| Where the Indian's head dress fluttered | J |
| Pale the settler would recoil | K |
| And his deepest curse was uttered | J |
| On the Red Son of the soil | K |
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| Later knew he not when often | L |
| Gladness with the Robin came | M |
| How a spirit change could soften | L |
| Hate to dear affection's flame | M |
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| Knew not as he heard delighted | N |
| Mellow notes in woodlands die | O |
| How his heart had leaped affrighted | O |
| At that voice in battle cry | O |
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| For a youthful Savage keeping | C |
| Long his cruel fast had prayed | O |
| All his soul in yearning steeping | C |
| Not for glory chase or maid | O |
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| But to sing in joy and wander | E |
| Following the summer hours | F |
| Drinking where the streams meander | E |
| Feasting with the leaves and flowers | F |
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| Once his people saw him painting | C |
| Red his sides and red his breast | O |
| Said His soul for fight is fainting | C |
| War paint suits the hero best | O |
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| Went when passed the night loud calling | C |
| Found him not but where he lay | P |
| Saw a Robin whose enthralling | C |
| Carol seemed to them to say | P |
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| I have left you I am going | C |
| Far from fast and winter pain | Q |
| When the laughing water's flowing | C |
| Hither I will come again | R |
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| Thus his ebon locks still wearing | C |
| With the war paint on his breast | O |
| Still he comes our summer sharing | C |
| And the lands he once possessed | O |
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| Finding in the white man's regions | F |
| Foemen none but friends whose heart | O |
| Loves the Robins' happy legions | F |
| Mourns when silent they depart | O |
John Campbell
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