Betsie Brown. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDB CBCBEFEFB GBGBCHCHB| I have loved you all my days | A |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| And I'll never cease to praise | A |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| Still must I break love's tie | C |
| To act a patriot part | D |
| But I'll yield thee as I die | C |
| The last throb of my heart | D |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| - | |
| For my country let me die | C |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| And never grieve nor cry | C |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| But lay me down to sleep | E |
| Where my country's tempests rave | F |
| Where its mountain moss can creep | E |
| O'er an humble patriot's grave | F |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| - | |
| And should my boy with thee | G |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| By my grave once bend the knee | G |
| Betsie Brown | B |
| Teach him to bleed or die | C |
| For his country or his God | H |
| Like him whose ashes lie | C |
| Beneath the loving sod | H |
| Betsie Brown | B |
A. H. Laidlaw
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