Canadian Streams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC CCEC EEFE FGHI HHJH JJKJ KKLK MLBL BBNB| O rivers rolling to the sea | A |
| From lands that bear the maple tree | A |
| How swell your voices with the strain | B |
| Of loyalty and liberty | A |
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| A holy music heard in vain | B |
| By coward heart and sordid brain | B |
| To whom this strenuous being seems | C |
| Naught but a greedy race for gain | B |
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| O unsung streams not splendid themes | C |
| Ye lack to fire your patriot dreams | C |
| Annals of glory gild your waves | D |
| Hope freights your tides Canadian streams | C |
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| St Lawrence whose wide water laves | C |
| The shores that ne'er have nourished slaves | C |
| Swift Richelieu of lilied fame | E |
| Niagara of glorious graves | C |
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| Thy rapids Ottawa proclaim | E |
| Where Daulac and his heroes came | E |
| Thy tides St John declare La Tour | F |
| And later many a loyal name | E |
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| Thou inland stream whose vales secure | F |
| From storm Tecumseh's death made poor | G |
| And thou small water red with war | H |
| 'Twixt Beaubassin and Beaus jour | I |
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| Dread Saguenay where eagles soar | H |
| What voice shall from the bastioned shore | H |
| The tale of Roberval reveal | J |
| Or his mysterious fate deplore | H |
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| Annapolis do thy floods yet feel | J |
| Faint memories of Champlain's keel | J |
| Thy pulses yet the deed repeat | K |
| Of Poutrincourt and d'Iberville | J |
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| And thou far tide whose plains now beat | K |
| With march of myriad weathering feet | K |
| Saskatchewan whose virgin sod | L |
| So late Canadian blood made sweet | K |
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| Your bulwark hills your valleys broad | M |
| Streams where de Salaberry trod | L |
| Where Wolfe achieved where Brock was slain | B |
| Their voices are the voice of God | L |
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| O sacred waters not in vain | B |
| Across Canadian height and plain | B |
| Ye sound us in triumphant tone | N |
| The summons of your high refrain | B |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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