Mother Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBCB DEBECEFE GHIHJHKH LMGNOPCP JQGQRQGS TJJJGJUJ VHJHJHWH WRJRXRGR YOZOXOA2OMacmillan's Magazine March | A |
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Oh what is that country | B |
And where can it be | B |
Not mine own country | B |
But dearer far to me | B |
Yet mine own country | B |
If I one day may see | B |
Its spices and cedars | C |
Its gold and ivory | B |
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As I lie dreaming | D |
It rises that land | E |
There rises before me | B |
Its green golden strand | E |
With its bowing cedars | C |
And its shining sand | E |
It sparkles and flashes | F |
Like a shaken brand | E |
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Do angels lean nearer | G |
While I lie and long | H |
I see their soft plumage | I |
And catch their windy song | H |
Like the rise of a high tide | J |
Sweeping full and strong | H |
I mark the outskirts | K |
Of their reverend throng | H |
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Oh what is a king here | L |
Or what is a boor | M |
Here all starve together | G |
All dwarfed and poor | N |
Here Death's hand knocketh | O |
At door after door | P |
He thins the dancers | C |
From the festal floor | P |
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Oh what is a handmaid | J |
Or what is a queen | Q |
All must lie down together | G |
Where the turf is green | Q |
The foulest face hidden | R |
The fairest not seen | Q |
Gone as if never | G |
They had breathed or been | S |
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Gone from sweet sunshine | T |
Underneath the sod | J |
Turned from warm flesh and blood | J |
To senseless clod | J |
Gone as if never | G |
They had toiled or trod | J |
Gone out of sight of all | U |
Except our God | J |
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Shut into silence | V |
From the accustomed song | H |
Shut into solitude | J |
From all earth's throng | H |
Run down tho' swift of foot | J |
Thrust down tho' strong | H |
Life made an end of | W |
Seemed it short or long | H |
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Life made an end of | W |
Life but just begun | R |
Life finished yesterday | J |
Its last sand run | R |
Life new born with the morrow | X |
Fresh as the sun | R |
While done is done for ever | G |
Undone undone | R |
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And if that life is life | Y |
This is but a breath | O |
The passage of a dream | Z |
And the shadow of death | O |
But a vain shadow | X |
If one considereth | O |
Vanity of vanities | A2 |
As the Preacher saith | O |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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