The American Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOCN| The maid for man to love | A |
| All other forms above | A |
| Is she whose home adorns the loam of this fair land of mine | B |
| American in sire | C |
| She's born of love and fire | C |
| And dominates the heart of man as by a right divine | B |
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| By rhyming swain pursued | D |
| She meets the puling dude | D |
| Whose hopes to win are centered in his pale Platonic plan | E |
| American in heart | F |
| She spurns his petty part | F |
| Then speeds him to the army mess to prove himself a man | E |
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| With tact burned in the bone | G |
| She stands herself alone | G |
| The peer of peers of ancient years for highest functions fit | H |
| American in head | I |
| Who woos her she may wed | I |
| If he hath grace and wit and worth and sense and soul and grit | H |
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| Alive alert and sweet | J |
| In rounded poise complete | J |
| Come any day what will or may she meets the world at par | K |
| American in soul | L |
| She brooks no man's control | L |
| But brings to one a crystal love as stainless as a star | K |
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| Who wins she weds retains | M |
| She lives she loves she reigns | M |
| Through home and hall and over all the sovereign of the scene | N |
| American in dower | O |
| She knows her native power | C |
| And holds the heart of him she loves a Woman and a Queen | N |
A. H. Laidlaw
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