The Land We Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI| Land of the gentle and brave | A |
| Our love is as wide as thy woe | B |
| It deepens beside every grave | A |
| Where the heart of a hero lies low | B |
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| Land of the sunniest skies | C |
| Our love glows the more for thy gloom | D |
| Our hearts by the saddest of ties | C |
| Cling closest to thee in thy doom | D |
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| Land where the desolate weep | E |
| In a sorrow no voice may console | F |
| Our tears are but streams making deep | E |
| The ocean of love in our soul | F |
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| Land where the victor's flag waves | G |
| Where only the dead are free | H |
| Each link of the chain that enslaves | G |
| But binds us to them and to thee | H |
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| Land where the Sign of the Cross | G |
| Its shadow hath everywhere shed | I |
| We measure our love by thy loss | G |
| Thy loss by the graves of our dead | I |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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