The Mystic Isle Of The "land Of The North Wind." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACCAC CDECFECAGCAG CHCCHC AIGAIG JKLJKL AACAAC| Keewatin | A |
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| A land untamed whose myriad isles | B |
| Are set in branching lakes that vein | A |
| Illimitable silent woods | C |
| Voiceful in Fall when their defiles | C |
| Rich with the birch's golden rain | A |
| See winging past the wildfowl broods | C |
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| Blue channels seem its dented rocks | C |
| So steeply smoothed but crusted o'er | D |
| With rounded mosses green and grey | E |
| That oft a Southern coral mocks | C |
| Upon this Northern fir clad shore | F |
| 'Neath tufted copse on cape and bay | E |
| Here sunshine from serener skies | C |
| Than Europe's ocean islands know | A |
| Ripens the berry for the bear | G |
| And pierces where the beaver plies | C |
| His water forestry or slow | A |
| The moose seeks out a breezy lair | G |
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| The blaze scarce spangles bush or ferns | C |
| But lights the white pine's velvet fringe | H |
| And its dark Norway sister's boughs | C |
| At eve between their shadows burns | C |
| The lake where shafts of crimson tinge | H |
| The savage war flotilla's prows | C |
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| Far circling round these seem to shun | A |
| An isle more fair than all beside | I |
| As if some lurking foe were there | G |
| Although upon its heights the sun | A |
| Shines glorious and its forest pride | I |
| Is fanned by summer's joyous air | G |
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| For 'mid these isles is one of fear | J |
| And none may ever breathe its name | K |
| There the Great Spirit loves to be | L |
| Its haunted groves and waters clear | J |
| Are homes of thunder and of flame | K |
| All pass it silently and flee | L |
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| Save they who potent magic learn | A |
| Who lonely in that dreaded fane | A |
| Resist nine days the awful powers | C |
| And fasting each through pain may earn | A |
| The knowledge daring mortals gain | A |
| If life survive those secret hours | C |
John Campbell
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