The Maple Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKCGC GLGLEAEA MCMCNONO| Well have Canadians chosen thee | A |
| As the emblem of their land | B |
| Thou noble spreading maple tree | A |
| Lord of the forest grand | B |
| Through all the changes Time has made | C |
| Thy woods so deep and hoar | D |
| Have given their homesteads pleasant shade | C |
| And beauty to their shore | D |
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| Say what can match in splendor rare | E |
| Thy foliage brightly green | F |
| Thy leaves that wave in summer s air | E |
| Glossy as satin sheen | F |
| When Spring returns the first art thou | G |
| On mountain or in vale | H |
| With springing life and budding bough | G |
| To tell the joyous tale | H |
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| In Autumn s hours of cheerless gloom | I |
| How glowing is the dye | J |
| Of the crimson robe thou dost assume | I |
| Though it only be to die | J |
| Like the red men who long years ago | K |
| Reposed beneath thy shade | C |
| And wore a smiling lip and brow | G |
| On the pyre their foes had made | C |
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| And e en in Winter fair art thou | G |
| With many a brilliant gem | L |
| That might adorn fair lady s brow | G |
| Or deck a diadem | L |
| And better than thy beauty rare | E |
| Or shade thou givest free | A |
| The life stream of thy branches fair | E |
| Thou gen rous brave old tree | A |
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| Warmly we pray no deed of harm | M |
| May fright thy peaceful shade | C |
| May st thou ne er see in war s alarm | M |
| Contending foes arrayed | C |
| But smiling down on peasants brave | N |
| On honest tranquil toil | O |
| Thy branches ever brightly wave | N |
| Above a happy soil | O |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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