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