A Walk In Mount Royal Park: Canadian Cities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBDD BEBEEBEBB FGFGHEHEE IJIEJKJKK LELEEJEJJ MNCNNIOII| Next morning in the Park I took a stroll | A |
| A walk upon Mount Royal is a thing | B |
| Glorious at any time but most of all | C |
| At early morning in the opening spring | B |
| While yet the snow wreaths to the rock shelves cling | B |
| And little streamlets lash the steaming side | D |
| While on the air the April breezes fling | B |
| An appetizing vigor far and wide | D |
| And make the steep ascent a pleasure and a pride | D |
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| The path ascends by stately Ravenscrag | B |
| And past the monument which marks his rest | E |
| Over whose history strange traditions drag | B |
| Their spectral robes his memory's sole behest | E |
| Here for a moment halting all imprest | E |
| With other thoughts than find a ready tongue | B |
| I view the leopard slope the bristling crest | E |
| The blue beyond with cloud veils lightly hung | B |
| And glory in a dream of time when earth was young | B |
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| I follow by the winding road until | F |
| By taking at the sweep the northern arm | G |
| I reach the summit For the topmost hill | F |
| The scenery reserves her chiefest charm | G |
| The upper sky is clear and light and warm | H |
| The southern peaks that far away I wist | E |
| Seem close upon me round their lower form | H |
| A shroud is wrapped their tops by sunlight kiss'd | E |
| High in mid air appear and mighty in the mist | E |
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| Beneath the River spreads his glist'ning sheen | I |
| Spanned by not least of master workmanships | J |
| Which sits as conscious daughter of a queen | I |
| And here art thou my city and thou dip'st | E |
| Thy towers in the mist whose magic strips | J |
| My spirit of the pall Time weaves in vain | K |
| Nor Time nor Disappointment can eclipse | J |
| Days of young bliss they must and will remain | K |
| Once more a wonder thou half city of the brain | K |
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| Fair art thou City of St Lawrence' Isle | L |
| Fair City of the Hundred Spires the seat | E |
| Of the Western Notre Dame whose towered pile | L |
| Rivals the first of many a stately street | E |
| And comely mansion many a garden sweet | E |
| Of Art and Nature envious to please | J |
| Thou of the mountain brow before whose feet | E |
| The Northern Amazon his tribute fees | J |
| Fraught with the waters of five mighty inland seas | J |
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| And fair art thou whilome the Capital | M |
| Not what thou wert but yet a gorgeous grave | N |
| Fortress of fame upon whose rocky wall | C |
| Records of glory awe the trembling wave | N |
| Heights where the memories of heroes pave | N |
| The ancient streets and lustre all the scene | I |
| Fair too thou city where our fasces have | O |
| Their present rest none worthier I ween | I |
| And fair ay very fair thou city called Queen | I |
W. M. Mackeracher
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