Canadians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEF GGHH IIJJ| With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs | A |
| With the trampling sound of twenty that re echoes in the roofs | B |
| Low of crest and dull of coat wan and wild of eye | C |
| Through our English village the Canadians go by | C |
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| Shying at a passing cart swerving from a car | D |
| Tossing up an anxious head to flaunt a snowy star | D |
| Racking at a Yankee gait reaching at the rein | E |
| Twenty raw Canadians are tasting life again | F |
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| Hollow necked and hollow flanked lean of rib and hip | G |
| Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship | G |
| Glad to smell the turf again hear the robin s call | H |
| Tread again the country road they lost at Montreal | H |
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| Fate may bring them dule and woe better steeds than they | I |
| Sleep beside the English guns a hundred leagues away | I |
| But till war hath need of them lightly lie their reins | J |
| Softly fall the feet of them along the English lanes | J |
William Henry Ogilvie
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