My Native Land! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDA EFFAAE GHHIJG KLLMMK DNNOOD PQRSSP

WHERE is the minstrel's native landA
Where the flames of light and feeling glowB
Where the flowers are wreathed for beauty's browC
Where the bounding heart swells strong and highD
With holy hopes which may not dieD
There is my native landA
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What is that bright land's music nameE
Ere it bent its neck to a foreign yokeF
It was called the land of the broad strong oakF
The land of the free the German landA
But her sons lie slain by the stranger's handA
And she weeps sad tears of shameE
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Why does the minstrel's country weepG
That the hurricane's rage hath bowed the prideH
Of those who should stem the rising tideH
That her princes quail and that none will hearI
Her holy words of might and fearJ
Therefore my land must weepG
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To whom does the minstrel's country callK
It calls to the silent heavenly powersL
With despair as the thunder darkly lowersL
For its freedom for those who should break its chainM
For the hand that never strikes in vainM
To these doth my country callK
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For what does the minstrel's country sighD
That the bloodhound may hunt beyond the boundN
Of the soil which brave hearts make holy groundN
That the serf may cease and our sons be freeO
Or those who have borne them cease to beO
For this does my country sighD
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And still doth the minstrel's country hopeP
Her hope is firm for her cause is goodQ
That her brave will rise and her true in bloodR
And that God the avenger our fathers' GodS
Will mark the tears that bedew her sodS
Such is my country's hopeP

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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