A Story Of Plantagenet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In the small Village of St Joseph below the City of Ottawa still lives or did live very recently an ancient couple whole story is told in the following lines	A
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PART I	B
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Lays of fair dames of lofty birth	C
And golden hair alt richly curled	D
Of knights that venture life for love	E
Suit poets of the older world	D
We wilt not fill our simple rhymes	F
With diamond flash or gleaming pearl	G
In singing of the by gone times	F
We simply sing the love and faith	H
Outliving absence strong as death	I
Of one Jow born Canadian girl	G
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'Twas long ago the rapid spring	J
Had scarce given place to summer yet	K
The Ottawa with swollen flood	L
Rolled past thy banks Plantagenet	L
Thy banks where tall and plumed pines	A
Stood rank on rank in serried lines	A
Green islands each with leafy crest	L
Lay peaceful on the river's breast	L
The trees ere this had one by one	M
Shook out their leaflets to the sun	M
Forming a rustling waving screen	N
While swollen waters rolled between	N
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The wild deer trooped through woodland path	O
And sought the river's strand	L
Slight danger then of flashing death	I
From roving hunter's hand	L
For very seldom was there seen	N
A hunter of the doomed red race	P
Few spots with miles of bush between	N
Marked each a settler's dwelling place	P
No lumberer's axe no snorting scream	Q
Of fierce though trained and harnessed steam	Q
No paddle wheel's revolving sound	L
No raftsman's cheer no bay of hound	L
Was heard to break the silent spell	R
That seemed to rest o'er wood and dell	R
All was so new so in its prime	S
An almost perfect solitude	L
As if had passed but little time	S
Since the All Father called it good	L
Nature in one thanksgiving psalm	T
Gathered each sound that broke the calm	U
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There was a little clearing there	V
A snow white cot a garden fair	V
Where useful plants in order set	L
With bergamot and mignonette	L
Glories that round the casement run	M
And pansies smiling at the sun	M
And wild wood blossoms fair and sweet	L
Showed forth how thrift and beauty meet	L
There was a space to plant and sow	W
Fenced by the pines strong hands laid low	X
By that lonely cottage stood	L
With eyes fixed on the swollen flood	L
A slight young girl with raven hair	V
And face that was both sad and fair	V
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Oh fair and lovely are the maids	Y
Nursed in Canadian forest shades	Y
The beauties of the older lands	Z
Moulded anew by nature's hands	Z
Fired by the free Canadian soul	A2
Join to produce a matchless whole	A2
The roses of Britannia's Isle	B2
In rosy blush and rosy smile	B2
The light of true and tender eyes	C2
As blue and pure as summer skies	C2
Light footed maids as matchless fair	V
As grow by Scotia's heath fringed rills	C2
Sweet as the hawthorn scented air	V
And true as the eternal hills	C2
We have the arch yet tender grace	C2
The power to charm of Erin's race	C2
The peachy cheek the rosebud mouth	D2
Imported from the sunny south	D2
With the dark melting lustrous eye	B
Silk lashes curtain languidly	B2
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The charms of many lands had met	L
In Marie of Plantagenet	L
She had the splendid southern eye	B
She had the northern brow of snow	X
The blush caught from a northern sky	B
Dark silky locks of southern flow	X
Light footed as the forest roe	X
As stately as the mountain pine	E2
A smile that lighted up her face	C2
The sunshine of a maiden's grace	C2
And made her beauty half divine	E2
So fair of face so fair of form	F2
Was she the peerless forest born	G2
Nature is kindly to her own	H2
To this Canadian cottage lone	H2
A back wood settler's lot to bless	C2
She brought this flower of loveliness	C2
Seldom such beauty does she bring	J
To grace the palace of a king	J
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A chevalier of sunny France	C2
Whom fate ordained to wander here	I2
To trade to trap to hunt the deer	J2
To roam with free foot through the wild	L
He chanced at husking in the dance	C2
To meet Marie Le Paige's child	L
And vowed that roaming everywhere	V
Except the lady fair as day	L
Who held his troth plight far away	L
He ne'er saw face or form so fair	V
From France's fair and stately queen	N
To maiden dancing on the green	N
From lowly bower to lordly hall	B2
This forest maid outshone them all	B2
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When old Le Paige would hear this praise	C2
Then would he turn and smiling say	L
To the plump partner of his days	C2
We who know our Marie well	B2
How true the heart so young and gay	L
We will not of her beauty tell	B2
Her love is more to thee and me	K2
And yet our child is fair to see	K2
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So many a dashing hunter brave	L2
And many an axeman of the wood	L
And hardy settler was her slave	L2
And thought the bondage very good	L
But she so kind to those she met	L
She smiled on all but walked apart	L
Keeping the treasure of her heart	L
The fair Queen of Plantagenet	L
No thought of love her bosom stirs	C2
Toward her rustic worshippers	C2
Until one came and settled near	J2
Famed as a hunter of the deer	J2
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The firmest hand the truest eye	B
The dauntless heart and courage high	B
Where his and famed beyond his years	C2
He stood among his young compeers	C2
He ere the snow wreath left the land	L
Slew two fierce wolves with single hand	L
Famished they followed on his tracks	C2
He armed with nothing but his axe	C2
He knew the river far and near	J2
Beyond the foaming dread Chaudiere	J2
Far far beyond that spot of fear	J2
He'd been a hardy voyageur	J2
Through the white swells of many assault	L
Had safely steered his bark canoe	M2
Knew how to pass each raging chute	L
Though boiling like the wild Culbute	L
The wilds of nature were his home	N2
His paddle beat the fleecy foam	N2
Of surging rapids' yeasty spray	J2
And bore him often far away	J2
Beyond the pinefringed Allumette	L
He saw the sun in glory set	L
His boat song roused the lurking fox	C2
From den beside the Oiseau rock	O2
Upward upon the river's breast	L
The highway to the wild Nor west	L
Past the long lake Temiscamingue	O2
Where wild drakes plume their glossy wing	O2
Oft had he urged his light canoe	M2
Hunting the moose and caribou	M2
He knew each portage on the way	J2
To the far posts of Hudson's Bay	J2
And even its frozen waters saw	C2
When roaming courier du bois	C2
In the great Company's employ	B2
Which he had entered when a boy	B2
Comely he was and blithe and young	O2
Had a light heart and merry tongue	O2
And bright dark eye was brave and bold	L
Skilful to earn and wise to hold	L
And so this hunter came our way	J2
And stole our wood nymph's heart away	J2
And it became Belle Marie's lot	L
To love Napoleon Rajotte	L
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Of all the sad despairing swains	C2
Foredoomed to disappointment's pains	C2
None felt the pangs of jealous woe	X
So keenly as Antome Vaiseau	C2
A thrifty settler's only son	M
Who much of backwoods wealth had won	M
A steady lad of nature mild	L
Had been her playmate from a child	L
And saw a stranger thus come in	P2
And take what he had died to win	P2
He saw him loved the best the first	L
Still he his hopeless passion nursed	L
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At Easter time the Cure came	Q2
And after Easter time was gone	R2
The hunter brave the peerless dame	Q2
Were blessed and made for ever one	M
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Beside the cottage white she stood	L
And looked across the swelling flood	L
Across the wave that rolled between	N
The islets robed in tender green	N
Watching with eager eyes she views	C2
A fleet of large well manned canoes	C2
The high curved bow and stern she knew	M2
That marked each Company canoe	M2
And o'er the wave both strong and clear	J2
Their boat song floated to her ear	J2
She marked their paddles' steady dip	S2
And listened with a quivering lip	S2
Her bridegroom daring gay and young	O2
With the bold heart and winning tongue	O2
Was with them upward bound away	J2
To the far posts of Hudson's Bay	J2
Gone ere the honeymoon is past	L
The bright brief moon too sweet to last	L
Gone for two long and dreary years	C2
And she must wait and watch at home	N2
Bear patiently her woman's fears	C2
And hope and pray until he come	T2
She stands there still although the last	L
Canoe of all the fleet is past	L
Of paddle's dip of boat song gay	J2
The last faint sound has died away	J2
She only said in turning home	N2
I'll wait and pray until he come	T2
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PART II	B
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Spring flung abroad her dewy charms	C2
And blushing grew to summer shine	E2
Summer sped on with outstretched arms	C2
To meet brown autumn crowned with vine	E2
The forest glowed in gold and green	N
The leafy maples flamed in red	L
With the warm hazy happy beam	Q
Of Indian summer overhead	L
Bright fair and fleet as passing dream	Q
The autumn also hurried on	U2
And shuddering dropped her leafy screen	N
The ice king from the frozen zone	H2
In fleecy robe of ermine dressed	L
Came stopping rivers with his hand	L
Binding in chains of ice the land	L
Bringing ere early spring he met	L
To Marie of Plantagenet	L
A pearly snow drop for her breast	L
An infant Marie to her home	N2
To brighten it until he come	T2
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Twice had the melting nor west snow	X
Come down to flood the Ottawa's wave	L2
The seasons as they come and go	X
Bring back she said the happy day	L
To welcome him from far away	L
Thy father child my hunter brave	L2
That snow drop baby now could stand	L
And run to Marie's outstretched hand	L
Had all the charms that are alone	H2
To youthful nursing mothers known	H2
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'Twas summer in the dusty street	L
'Twas summer in the busy town	V2
Summer in forests waving green	N
When at an inn in old Lachine	N
And in the room where strangers meet	L
Sat one bright eyed and bold and brown	N
Soon will he joyful start for home	N2
For home in fair Plantagenet	L
His wallet filled with two years' pay	L
Well won at distant Hudson's Bay	L
And the silk dress that stands alone	N
For her the darling dark eyed one	N
Parted so long so soon to meet	L
His every thought of her is sweet	L
My bride my wife with what regret	L
I left her at Plantagenet	L
There came no whisper through the air	J2
To tell him of his baby fair	J2
But still he sat with absent eye	B
And thoughts that were all homeward bound	L
And passed the glass untasted by	B
While jest and mirth and song went round	L
There sat and jested drunk and sung	O2
The captain of an Erie boat	L
With Erin's merry heart and tongue	O2
A skilful captain when afloat	L
On shore a boon companion gay	L
The foremost in a tavern brawl	B2
To dance or drink the night away	L
Or make love in the servants' hall	B2
The merry devil in his eye	B
Could well all passing round him spy	B
Wanting picked men to man his boat	L
Eager to be once more afloat	L
His keen eye knew the man he sought	L
At once he pitched upon Rajotte	L
The bright brown man so silent there	J2
He judged could both endure and dare	J2
He waited till he caught his eye	B
Then raising up his glass on high	B
Stranger I drink your health said he	K2
You'll sail the 'Emerald Isle ' with me	K2
A smarter crew a better boat	L
Lake Erie's waves will never float	L
I want but one to fill my crew	M2
I wish no better man than you	M2
High wage light work a jolly life	W2
Is ours no care no fret no strife	W2
So come before the good chance pass	C2
And drown our bargain in the glass	C2
Not so Rajotte said with a smile	B2
Let others sail the 'Emerald Isle '	-
For I have been two years away	L
A trapper at the Hudson's Bay	L
Two years is long enough to roam	N2
I'm bound to see my wife and home	N2
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The captain shook his curly head	L
Did you not hear the news he said	L
Last summer came from Hudson's Bay	L
A courier from York Factory	K2
He brought the news that you were dead	L
Killed by a wounded grizzly bear	J2
When trapping all alone up there	J2
Found you himself the fellow said	L
And your wife mourned and wept her fill	B2
Refusing to be comforted	L
But grief you know will pass away	L
She found new love as women will	B2
And married here the other day	L
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Not doubting aught of what he heard	L
He sat but neither spoke nor stirred	L
His heart gave one great throb of pain	N
And stopped then bounded on again	N
His bronze face took an ashen hue	M2
As his great woe came blanching through	M2
And stormy thoughts with stinging pain	N
Swept with wild anguish through his brain	N
But not a word he spoke	O2
They only saw his lips grow pale	B2
But no word questioned of the tale	B2
You might have thought the captain bold	L
Had almost wished his tale untold	L
But careless he of working harm	X2
When coveting that brave right arm	X2
At last the silence broke	O2
He who brought news that I was dead	L
Is it to him my wife is wed	L
Was it I know it must be so	X
It must have been Antoine Vaiseau	X
Yes said the Captain 'tis the same	Q2
Antoine Vaiseau's the very name	Q2
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So ere the morrow's morn had come	T2
Rajotte had turned his back from home	N2
And gone for ever more	J2
Gone off alone with his despair	J2
While his true wife and baby fair	J2
Watched for him at the door	J2
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The rough crew of the Emerald Isle	B2
Had one grim man without a smile	B2
So prompt to do so wild to dare	J2
Reckless and nursing his despair	J2
The merry light had left his glance	X
His foot refused to join the dance	X
His heart refused to pray	L
Oh to forget he oft would cry	B
Forget this ceaseless agony	K2
To fly from thought away	L
Woe spun her white threads in his hair	J2
And bitter and unblessed despair	J2
Ploughed furrows in his face	X
Grief her dark shade on all things cast	L
None dared to question of the past	L
His sorrow seemed disgrace	X
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When rumour rose of Indian war	J2
Troops mustering for the west afar	J2
That wanted them a guide	L
Rajotte said I'm the man to go	X
War's din he thought would drown his woe	X
'Twas well the world was wide	L
The Black Hawk war began went on	N
Men dare not tell what men have done	N
The white's relentless cruelty	K2
O'ermastering Indian treachery	K2
Rajotte a stern determined man	N
Sought death forever in the van	N
On many a fierce fought battle plain	N
His life seemed charmed he sought in vain	N
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Spring came and went the years went past	L
War ended peace came round at last	L
But war might go and peace might come	T2
Rajotte thought not of turning home	N2
Till failing strength and fading eye	B
He turned him homeward just to die	B
Perhaps although he felt it not	L
In his fierce wrestling with his lot	L
There was a drawing influence	X
From the dear home so far away	L
And faithful prayers had risen from thence	X
To Him who hears us when we pray	L
Who watched the lonely waiting heart	L
That nursed its love and faith apart	L
And pitying her well borne pain	N
Ordained it should not be in vain	N
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PART III	B
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Now turn we to Plantagenet	L
Through all these weary waiting years	X
How many hopes and fears have met'	L
How many prayers how many tears	X
When the time came that he should come	T2
Back to his fair young wife and home	N2
Often and often would she say	L
He'll surely come to us to day	L
Pet Marie's best robe was put on	N
And the poor mother dressed with care	J2
Glad that she was both young and fair	J2
To meet thy father little one	N
Oft standing on the very spot	L
Where she had parted from Rajotte	L
She stood a patient watcher long	O2
And listened eagerly to hear	J2
The voyageurs' returning song	O2
Come floating to her ear	J2
But still he came not years went by	B
Yet she must pray and hope and wait	L
His form would some day meet her eye	B
His step sound at the river gate	L
Oh it was hard to hear them say	L
He comes not and he must be dead	L
Cease pining all your life away	L
'Twere better far that you should wed	L
And Antoine keeps his first love still	B2
And Antoine is so well to do	L
You may be happy if you will	B2
His pleading eyes ask leave to woo	L
'Twas a relief to steal away	L
And tell her ebon rosary	K2
And to the Virgin Mother pray	L
Thinking that she in Heaven above	E
Remembered all of earthly love	E
And human sympathy	K2
And having suffered human pain	N
Known what it was to grieve in vain	N
Might bend to listen to her prayer	J2
And make the absent one her care	J2
In pleading with her Son	N
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She waited while the years went on	N
And would not think that hope was gone	N
Ever his steps seemed sounding near	J2
His voice came floating to her ear	J2
And longing prayer and yearning pain	N
Reached out to draw him back again	N
And love beyond all estimate	L
Strengthened her heart to hope and wait	L
Pet Marie grew up tall and fair	J2
Her girlish love her merry ways	X
Kept the poor mother from despair	J2
Through many weary nights and days	X
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Spring and high water both had met	L
Once more at fair Plantagenet	L
Once more the island trees were seen	N
Adorned with leaves of tender green	N
Aux Lievres's roar was heard afar	J2
Where waters dashed on rocks to spray	L
Roaring and tumbling in their play	L
Kept up a boisterous holiday	L
With tumult loud of mimic war	J2
The wild ducks of Lochaber's Bay	L
Were playing round on wanton wing	O2
Rippling the current with their breasts	X
Feeling the gladness of the spring	O2
Pairing and building happy nests	X
All sounds of spring were in the air	J2
All sights of spring were fresh and fair	J2
Sad Marie of Plantagenet	L
With silver threads among her hair	J2
And by her side her blooming pet	L
As she had once been fresh and fair	J2
Stood on the bank that glorious day	L
Thinking of him so long away	L
Awhile they both in silence stood	L
Then Marie said The Nor west flood	L
Again another year has come	T2
You see those water fowl at play	L
Come with the flood from far away	L
What flood will bring your father home	N2
'Tis seventeen years ago to day	L
Since parting here he went away	L
Just then young Marie glancing round	L
Mamma I hear a paddle's sound	L
Look there those maple branches through	L
Below us there's a bark canoe	L
'Tis stopping at our landing place	X
There's but one man with hair so grey	L
And a worn weather beaten face	X
See he is coming up this way	L
Mamma I wonder who is he	K2
Stay here and I will go and see	K2
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Rajotte who thought he did not care	J2
That he had conquered even despair	J2
Could bear to see as well as know	X
That Marie was the Dame Vaiseau	K2
Came to the parting spot and there	J2
In the bright sunlight's happy beams	K2
Stood the fair image of his dreams	K2
As young as on the parting day	L
As bright as when he went away	L
As beautiful as when he met	L
Her first in fair Plantagenet	L
His Marie living breathing warm	F2
Her glorious eyes her midnight hair	J2
Shading the beauty of her face	K2
The same lithe rounded perfect form	F2
The look of true and tender grace	K2
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Rajotte stood spell bound and the past	L
Seemed fading like a horrid dream	Q
Marie he said I'm home at last	L
Speak Marie are you what you seem	Q
After all these long years of pain	N
Art thou love given to me again	N
The maiden stood with wondering eyes	K2
Silent because of her surprise	K2
But the wife Marie gave a cry	B
Of joy that rose to agony	K2
She rushed the long lost one to meet	L
And falling fainted at his feet	L
He held the true wife's pallid charms	K2
Slowly reviving in his arms	K2
And then he surely learned to know	X
A little of the grand true heart	L
That through so many years of woe	X
Waited and prayed and watched apart	L
Keeping love's light while he was gone	N
Like sacred fire still burning on	N
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While hearts are bargained for and sold	L
In fashion's fortune chasing whirl	B2
We simply sing the love and faith	H
Out living absence strong as death	I
Of one low born Canadian girl	B2

Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

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