Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKL LMM JIBL NNLL LIL AAJJ| O spirit of the mountain that speaks to us to night | A |
| Your voice is sad yet still recalls past visions of delight | A |
| When 'mid the grand old Laurentides old when the earth was new | B |
| With flying feet we followed the moose and caribou | B |
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| And backward rush sweet memories like fragments of a dream | C |
| We hear the dip of paddle blades the ripple of the stream | C |
| The mad mad rush of frightened wings from brake and covert start | D |
| The breathing of the woodland the throb of nature's heart | D |
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| Once more beneath our eager feet the forest carpet springs | E |
| We march through gloomy valleys where the vesper sparrow sings | E |
| The little minstrel heeds us not nor stays his plaintive song | F |
| As with our brave coureurs de bois we swiftly pass along | F |
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| Again o'er dark Wayagamack in bark canoe we glide | G |
| And watch the shades of evening glance along the mountain side | G |
| Anon we hear resounding the wizard loon's wild cry | H |
| And mark the distant peak whereon the ling'ring echoes die | H |
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| But Spirit of the Northland let the winter breezes blow | I |
| And cover every giant crag with rifts of driving snow | I |
| Freeze every leaping torrent bind all the crystal lakes | J |
| Tell us of fiercer pleasures when the Storm King awakes | J |
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| And now the vision changes the winds are loud and shrill | K |
| The falling flakes are shrouding the mountain and the hill | K |
| But safe within our snug cabane with comrades gathered near | L |
| We set the rafters ringing with 'Roulant' and 'Brigadier ' | - |
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| Then after Pierre and Telesphore have danced 'Le Caribou ' | - |
| Some hardy trapper tells a tale of the dreaded Loup Garou | L |
| Or phantom bark in moonlit heavens with prow turned to the East | M |
| Bringing the Western voyageurs to join the Christmas feast | M |
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| And while each backwoods troubadour is greeted with huzza | J |
| Slowly the homely incense of 'tabac Canayen' | I |
| Rises and sheds its perfume like flowers of Araby | B |
| O'er all the true born loyal Enfants de la Patrie | L |
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| And thus with song and story with laugh and jest and shout | N |
| We heed not dropping mercury nor storms that rage without | N |
| But pile the huge logs higher till the chimney roars with glee | L |
| And banish spectral visions with La Chanson Normandie | L |
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| 'Brigadier r pondit Pandore | L |
| Brigadier vous avez raison | I |
| Brigadier r pondit Pandore | L |
| Brigadier vous avez raison ' | - |
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| O spirit of the mountain that speaks to us to night | A |
| Return again and bring us new dreams of past delight | A |
| And while our heart throbs linger and till our pulses cease | J |
| We'll worship thee among the hills where flows the Saint Maurice | J |
William Henry Drummond
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