Canadian-born Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFADAD AGAGHDHD AIAIJDJD KLKLMDMD AAAANDND OPOPBDBD QARAHDHD PAPASDSD| Although I'm not unduly proud | A |
| Inordinately vain | B |
| But humble as will be allowed | A |
| And modest in the main | B |
| I must confess to pride of birth | C |
| And all detractors warn | D |
| To let alone one land on earth | C |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| In one respect I fill the bill | E |
| As well as any man | F |
| Between Vancouver and Brazil | E |
| Morocco and Japan | F |
| From Hobart Town to Hammerfest | A |
| From Greenland to the Horn | D |
| My native land is much the best | A |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| The Greeks beside their Hellespont | A |
| Thought all but they were scum | G |
| The Latins loved the classic vaunt | A |
| Civis Romanus sum | G |
| I'm not so impudent as they | H |
| To hold the world in scorn | D |
| But have a better boast to day | H |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| My land is beauty's flag unfurled | A |
| A garden of increase | I |
| The crowning wonder of the world | A |
| Creation's masterpiece | I |
| And deathless deed and kingly name | J |
| Her chronicles adorn | D |
| I'm pardonably proud to claim | J |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| I love her cities old and new | K |
| Her crested mountain chains | L |
| Her lakes and rivers fair to view | K |
| Her meadows and her plains | L |
| Her tented fields of yellow sheaves | M |
| Her spears of towering corn | D |
| Her forests with their maple leaves | M |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| I love her verdant springtime sweet | A |
| Her autumn red and gold | A |
| I love her summer's tropic heat | A |
| Her winter's arctic cold | A |
| The splendor of her evening glow | N |
| The glory of her morn | D |
| And day and night I love to know | N |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| All honor to her pioneers | O |
| The gallant sons of France | P |
| All honor to their British peers | O |
| Who aided her advance | P |
| To workers like the great Champlain | B |
| And Dufferin and Lorne | D |
| And those who could take up the strain | B |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| Here my allotted time I'd live | Q |
| And play my little part | A |
| My service here to Nature give | R |
| To Industry and Art | A |
| Here pluck life's roses when I may | H |
| And when I feel the thorn | D |
| Look up with fortitude and say | H |
| I am Canadian born | D |
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| And should unfriendly circumstance | P |
| Which Providence forbid | A |
| Decree that from my latest glance | P |
| My country should be hid | A |
| Ah then 'twill ease my parting sigh | S |
| And cheer my heart forlorn | D |
| To think wherever I may die | S |
| I am Canadian born | D |
W. M. Mackeracher
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