The Quebec Exodus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCD EFEFEFGG HIHIHIJJ| Why should we leave the soil our fathers cleared | A |
| And lifelong tilled with patient loving hands | B |
| Why should we leave the homes our fathers reared | A |
| And seek strange dwellings in unhallowed lands | B |
| Why should we leave the shrines where they revered | A |
| Their guardian God and break the golden bands | B |
| That bind us to the ashes of our sires | C |
| Their haunts their hearthstones and their altar fires | D |
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| Is it that now no longer from our doors | E |
| The forest stretches with its gloom profound | F |
| That they who first set foot upon these shores | E |
| Increase and multiply and hedge us round | F |
| Co heritors of the exhaustless stores | E |
| Of natural wealth that more and more abound | F |
| Because of brethren of a differing speech | G |
| From whom we learn and whom perhaps we teach | G |
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| It was not thus our conquering race arose | H |
| It was not thus our copious language grew | I |
| The Saxon mingled with his Celtic foes | H |
| The Norman brought to both a spirit new | I |
| Not thus we read th' heroic tale of those | H |
| Who built the younger Britains o'er the blue | I |
| 'Twas here and there a handful in the earth | J |
| Prevailing not by numbers but by worth | J |
W. M. Mackeracher
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