Mother Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBCB DEBECEFE GHIHJHKH LMGNOPCP JQGQRQGS TJJJGJUJ VHJHJHWH WRJRXRGR YOZOXOA2O

Macmillan's Magazine MarchA
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Oh what is that countryB
And where can it beB
Not mine own countryB
But dearer far to meB
Yet mine own countryB
If I one day may seeB
Its spices and cedarsC
Its gold and ivoryB
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As I lie dreamingD
It rises that landE
There rises before meB
Its green golden strandE
With its bowing cedarsC
And its shining sandE
It sparkles and flashesF
Like a shaken brandE
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Do angels lean nearerG
While I lie and longH
I see their soft plumageI
And catch their windy songH
Like the rise of a high tideJ
Sweeping full and strongH
I mark the outskirtsK
Of their reverend throngH
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Oh what is a king hereL
Or what is a boorM
Here all starve togetherG
All dwarfed and poorN
Here Death's hand knockethO
At door after doorP
He thins the dancersC
From the festal floorP
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Oh what is a handmaidJ
Or what is a queenQ
All must lie down togetherG
Where the turf is greenQ
The foulest face hiddenR
The fairest not seenQ
Gone as if neverG
They had breathed or beenS
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Gone from sweet sunshineT
Underneath the sodJ
Turned from warm flesh and bloodJ
To senseless clodJ
Gone as if neverG
They had toiled or trodJ
Gone out of sight of allU
Except our GodJ
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Shut into silenceV
From the accustomed songH
Shut into solitudeJ
From all earth's throngH
Run down tho' swift of footJ
Thrust down tho' strongH
Life made an end ofW
Seemed it short or longH
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Life made an end ofW
Life but just begunR
Life finished yesterdayJ
Its last sand runR
Life new born with the morrowX
Fresh as the sunR
While done is done for everG
Undone undoneR
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And if that life is lifeY
This is but a breathO
The passage of a dreamZ
And the shadow of deathO
But a vain shadowX
If one considerethO
Vanity of vanitiesA2
As the Preacher saithO

Christina Georgina Rossetti



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