Champlain's First Winter And Spring In Quebec Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CADAEFEG HIHIJJ K HLHMHHHH IHIHNN| From the prose of Parkman | A |
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| I THE WINTER | B |
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| September bade the sail of Pontgrav | C |
| Godspeed and smil'd upon the infant nation | A |
| October deckt the shores and hills with gay | D |
| Prognostics of approaching desolation | A |
| Ere long the forest steep'd in golden gloom | E |
| Dropt rustling down its shrivel'd festal dress | F |
| And chill November sombre as the tomb | E |
| Sank on the vast primeval wilderness | G |
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| Inexorable winter's iron vice | H |
| Gript hard the land funereal with snow | I |
| The stream was fill'd with grinding drifts of ice | H |
| A fell disease laid twenty Frenchmen low | I |
| In death and left the dauntless leader eight | J |
| With whom to hold the New World's fortress gate | J |
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| II THE SPRING | K |
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| The purgatory pass'd the stalactites | H |
| That fring'd the cliffs fell crashing to the earth | L |
| With clamor shrill the wild geese skimm'd the heights | H |
| In airy navies sailing to the north | M |
| The bluebirds chirrup'd in the naked woods | H |
| The water willows donn'd their downy blooms | H |
| The trim swamp maple blush'd with ruddy buds | H |
| The forest ash hung out its sable plumes | H |
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| The shad bush gleam'd a wreath of purest snow | I |
| The white stars of the bloodroot peep'd from folds | H |
| Of rotting leaves and in the meadows low | I |
| Shone saffron spots the gay marsh marigolds | H |
| May made all green and on the fifth of June | N |
| A sail appeared with succor none too soon | N |
W. M. Mackeracher
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