Maoriland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCDCDEEFBGBHHID IDJJ KDKDLLBDBDMNKIKIOOBB BBPP DBDBQQODODRRPSGSQQBB BBBB| MAORILAND my mother | A |
| Holds the earth so fair another | A |
| O my land of the moa and Maori | B |
| Garlanded grand with your forests of kauri | B |
| Lone you stand only beauty your dowry | B |
| Maoriland my mother | B |
| Older poets sing their frozen | C |
| England in her mists enshrouded | D |
| Newer lands my Muse has chosen | C |
| 'Neath a Southern sky unclouded | D |
| Set a solitary gem | E |
| In Pacific's diadem | E |
| Land of rugged white clad ranges | F |
| Standing proud impassive lonely | B |
| Ice and snow where never change is | G |
| Save the mighty motion only | B |
| Where through valleys seared and deep | H |
| Slow the serpent glaciers creep | H |
| Land of silent lakes that nestle | I |
| Deep as night girt round with forest | D |
| Water never cut by vessel | I |
| In whose mirror evermore rest | D |
| Green wrapt mountain side and peak | J |
| Reddened by the sunset's streak | J |
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| Land of forests richly sweeping | K |
| By the rata's red fire spangled | D |
| Where at noonday night is sleeping | K |
| Where beneath the creepers tangled | D |
| Come the tui's liquid calls | L |
| And the plash of waterfalls | L |
| Land where fire from Earth's deep centre | B |
| Fights for breath in anguish furied | D |
| Till she from the weight that pent her | B |
| Flings her flames out fiercely lurid | D |
| Where the geysers hiss and seethe | M |
| And the rocks groan far beneath | N |
| Land of tussocked plain extending | K |
| In the distant blue to mingle | I |
| Where wide rivers sigh unending | K |
| Over weary wastes of shingle | I |
| Cold as moonlight is their flow | O |
| From the glacier ice and snow | O |
| Land where torrents pause to dally | B |
| 'Neath the toi's floating feather | B |
| Where the flax blades in the valley | B |
| Whisper stealthily together | B |
| And within the cabbage trees | P |
| Hides the dying evening breeze | P |
| - | |
| Land where all winds whisper one word | D |
| Death though skies are fair above her | B |
| Newer nations white press onward | D |
| Her brown warriors' fight is over | B |
| One by one they yield their place | Q |
| Peace slain chieftains of her race | Q |
| Land where faces find no furrow | O |
| With the flush of life elated | D |
| Where no grief is save the sorrow | O |
| Of a pleasure that is sated | D |
| Land of children lithe and slim | R |
| Fresh of face and long of limb | R |
| Land of fair enwreath d cities | P |
| Wide towns that the green bush merge in | S |
| Land whose history unwrit is | G |
| Memory hath no chaster virgin | S |
| Land that is a starting place | Q |
| For a newer nobler race | Q |
| Maoriland my mother | B |
| Holds the Earth so fair another | B |
| O my land of the moa and Maori | B |
| Garlanded grand with your rata and kauri | B |
| Lone you stand only beauty your dowry | B |
| Maoriland my mother | B |
Arthur Henry Adams
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