Is There Room For The Poet? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IHIH JKJK LMLM FNFN OPOP| Is there room for the poet fair Canada's sons | A |
| To live his strange life and to warble his songs | B |
| To follow each current of thought as it runs | A |
| And to sing of your victories glories and wrongs | B |
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| Is there room for the poet ye senators grave | C |
| Ye orators statesmen and law makers say | D |
| May he of the calling so gentle e'er crave | C |
| Your patronage and of your kindness a ray | D |
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| Ye toilers in cities ye workers in fields | E |
| Who handle the hammer the pen or the plow | F |
| Can the poet implicitly trust as he yields | E |
| His heart and his hopes and his name to you now | F |
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| Wilt thou pardon his follies forgive him his faults | G |
| In manners in habits in distance and time | H |
| For when on his charger Pegasus he vaults | G |
| He rises o'er reason's safe temperate clime | H |
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| He will sing of his country his people and thine | I |
| Exalt if you aid him your honor and fame | H |
| Your sympathy acting like purest of wine | I |
| Will urge him to joyously sing of your name | H |
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| His case is peculiar stern fate has been hard | J |
| His body unfitted for labours of men | K |
| His mind with the sensitive make of the bard | J |
| Unfitted for aught but the work of the pen | K |
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| He singeth but yet he must live as he sings | L |
| He hath wants of the earth that must be supplied | M |
| And tho' 'tis an off'ring most humble he brings | L |
| He hopes that your favors will not be denied | M |
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| Our country is young let us early instil | F |
| Deep into the minds of the youthful and fair | N |
| The greatness of virtue uprightness and will | F |
| And the poet will help you to 'stablish them there | N |
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| Be it his to proclaim e'en tho' rudely in measure | O |
| The rights of his country her honour renown | P |
| To sing of whatever his people may treasure | O |
| In court or in camp in the country or town | P |
Thomas Frederick Young
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