The Coming Of Champlain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHH| From the prose of Parkman | A |
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| Up the St Lawrence with well weather'd sails | B |
| A lonely vessel clove its foaming track | C |
| None hail'd its coming the white floundering whales | B |
| Disported in the Bay of Tadoussac | C |
| The wild duck div'd before its figured prow | D |
| The painted savage spied it from the shore | E |
| And dream'd not that his reign was ended now | D |
| That that strange ship a new Aeneas bore | E |
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| Whose pale fac'd inconsiderable band | F |
| Were pioneers of an aggressive host | G |
| Of thousands millions filling all the land | F |
| And 'stablishing therein from coast to coast | G |
| This civil state with cities temples marts | H |
| Schools laws and peaceful industries and arts | H |
W. M. Mackeracher
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