Mother Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBCB DEBECEFE GHIHJHKH LMGNOPCP JQGQRQGS TJJJGJUJ VHJHJHWH WRJRXRGR YOZOXOA2O| Macmillan'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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