The Winter And The Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEF C| When we who dwell within this province old | A |
| Cloven in twain by the great river's tide | B |
| Gird at inhospitable winter's cold | A |
| And rue the downfall of fair summer's pride | B |
| Or turn our eyes from gazing on the vales | C |
| Of lavish verdure and abundant fruit | D |
| To those rough wastes where Nature ever fails | C |
| And tillage spurns a profitless pursuit | D |
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| Let us recall that sentence from the hand | E |
| Of history's father laying down his pen | F |
| Those words of Cyrus which he made to stand | E |
| To all his work as moral and amen | F |
| 'Tis not the richest and most fertile land | E |
| That always bears the noblest breed of men | F |
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| Although the work seems unfinished it concludes with a sentence which cannot have been placed casually at the end viz that as the great Cyrus was supposed to have said 'It is not always the richest and most fertile country which produces the most valiant men ' Commentary on the Work of Herodotus | C |
W. M. Mackeracher
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