The Lake Allumette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB CDCD ABAB EFEF AGAG AHAH IAIA| One is not | A |
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| Have you seen the beautiful Allumette | A |
| The magnificent pine fringed lake | B |
| In its splendour the sun about to set | A |
| Ere the fair lady moon awake | B |
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| The waters are tinged with a golden glow | C |
| With rose and ruby and purple bars | D |
| Heaven's mantle flung on the lake below | C |
| Till it fades off beneath the stars | D |
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| The distant hills robed in violet mist | A |
| Of the heavenly hues partake | B |
| As they stand with the sunlight crowned and kissed | A |
| On guard round the beautiful lake | B |
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| Over the waters ride gay little boats | E |
| Diamonds flash from the dipping oars | F |
| Laughter and song's mingled melody floats | E |
| To ripple and die around the shores | F |
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| Life is so gay on the Lake Allumette | A |
| Ah me does its sky ever frown | G |
| On a place unmarked unheeded and yet | A |
| In that place my brother went down | G |
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| Sad hearted we sit by Lake Allumette | A |
| Who saw him go down in the wave | H |
| And question ourselves in anguished regret | A |
| Did we make every effort to save | H |
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| For those who are left to some one so dear | I |
| We tried feebly warning to set | A |
| We have failed we look with sorrow and fear | I |
| For woe that must come by Lake Allumette | A |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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