The "qu'appelle" Valley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK LMJMNOPO GQNQRSTS QMQM| Morning lighting all the prairies | A |
| Once of old came bright as now | B |
| To the twin cliffs sloping wooded | C |
| From the vast plain's even brow | B |
| When the sunken valley's levels | D |
| With the winding willowed stream | E |
| Cried Depart night's mists and shadows | F |
| Open flowered we love to dream | E |
| - | |
| Then in his canoe a stranger | G |
| Passing onward heard a cry | H |
| Thought it called his name and answered | I |
| But the voice would not reply | H |
| Waited listening while the glory | J |
| Rose to search each steep ravine | K |
| Till the shadowed terraced ridges | L |
| Like the level vale were green | K |
| - | |
| Strange as when on Space the voices | L |
| Of the stars' hosannahs fell | M |
| To this wilderness of beauty | J |
| Seemed his call Qu'Appelle Qu'Appelle | M |
| For a day he tarried hearkening | N |
| Wondering as he went his way | O |
| Whose the voice that gladly called him | P |
| With the merry tones of day | O |
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| Was it God who gave dumb Nature | G |
| Voice and words to shout to one | Q |
| Who a pioneer came sunlike | N |
| Down the pathways of the sun | Q |
| Harbinger of thronging thousands | R |
| Bringing plain and vale and wood | S |
| Things the best and last created | T |
| Human hearts and brotherhood | S |
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| Long the doubt and eager question | Q |
| Yet that valley's name shall tell | M |
| For its farmers' laughing children | Q |
| Gravely call it The Qu'Appelle | M |
John Campbell
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