Canada's Eighteen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIJ KFKF LMLM NFNF OPOP| At Paardeberg they fell | A |
| Within the Orange State | B |
| They did their duty well | A |
| They bravely met their fate | B |
| - | |
| A stubborn fight they made | C |
| Upon the level plain | D |
| While from the barricade | C |
| The bullets poured like rain | D |
| - | |
| They fiercely charged the trench | E |
| They took the outer line | F |
| Who saw a visage blench | E |
| Who heard a voice repine | F |
| - | |
| They bore the ruthless fire | G |
| But deadly was the cost | H |
| They lived not to retire | I |
| Nor saw their capture lost | J |
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| No lustrous deed they wrought | K |
| To prompt the epic pen | F |
| They only bravely fought | K |
| And gave their lives like men | F |
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| And yet no hero's fame | L |
| That rings across the seas | M |
| Shall e'er eclipse the name | L |
| And memory of these | M |
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| While suns shall rise and set | N |
| Upon the fatal scene | F |
| We never shall forget | N |
| Our Canada's Eighteen | F |
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| And now as Britain weaves | O |
| The garland of her grief | P |
| We place among the leaves | O |
| A blood red maple leaf | P |
W. M. Mackeracher
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