The American Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBC EEFGGFH IIJJIH KKLGGLM NNOPPOM JJQGGQHIIJJIH ABCDBCYes The land we love | A |
Is a land of pretty girls | B |
In grand variety | C |
With their many colored eyes | D |
And their multi colored curls | B |
They'll steal thy heart from thee | C |
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If you travel in the North | E |
One will gleam in glory forth | E |
With her blue eyes O so blue | F |
And her flash of golden hair | G |
Will be flirting in the air | G |
While entrancing all the soul in you | F |
Oho My Boy Oho | H |
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Always for your weal and never for your woe | I |
Your little heart will gallop on the go | I |
And it will not give you rest | J |
Within your manly breast | J |
Till you land yourself in toto at her toe | I |
Oho My Boy Oho | H |
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If you travel in the South | K |
You will find a rosy mouth | K |
And a black eye O so black | L |
And some strands of raven hair | G |
Will purloin your heart just there | G |
And you'll never get the poor thing back | L |
Oho My Boy Oho Etc | M |
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If you travel in the East | N |
Your dear soul will have a feast | N |
On a sweet eye O so sweet | O |
And a most seductive curl | P |
Will there give your heart a twirl | P |
That will fling you at two queenly feet | O |
Oho My Boy Oho Etc | M |
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If you travel in the West | J |
One shy glance will pierce your breast | J |
From a bright eye O so bright | Q |
And an auburn heaven of hair | G |
Will so glorify the air | G |
You'll surrender all your soul at sight | Q |
Oho My Boy Oho | H |
Always for your weal and never for your woe | I |
Your little heart will gallop on the go | I |
And it will not give you rest | J |
Within your manly breast | J |
Till you land yourself in toto at her toe | I |
Oho My Boy Oho | H |
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Thus the land we love | A |
Is a land of pretty girls | B |
In grand variety | C |
With their many colored eyes | D |
And their multi colored curls | B |
They'll steal thy heart from thee | C |
A. H. Laidlaw
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