America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMCCAA NNOOPPQQCC RRSSQQQQGG| God has been good to men He gave | A |
| His Only Son their souls to save | A |
| And then he made a second gift | B |
| Which from their dreary lives should lift | B |
| The tyrant's yoke and set them free | C |
| From all who'd throttle liberty | C |
| He gave America to men | D |
| Fashioned this land we love and then | D |
| Deep in her forests sowed the seed | E |
| Which was to serve man's earthly need | E |
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| When wisps of smoke first upwards curled | F |
| From pilgrim fires upon the world | F |
| Unnoticed and unseen began | G |
| God's second work of grace for man | G |
| Here where the savage roamed and fought | H |
| God sowed the seed of nobler thought | H |
| Here to the land we love to claim | I |
| The pioneers of freedom came | I |
| Here has been cradled all that's best | J |
| In every human mind and breast | J |
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| For full four hundred years and more | K |
| Our land has stretched her welcoming shore | K |
| To weary feet from soils afar | L |
| Soul shackled serfs of king and czar | L |
| Have journeyed here and toiled and sung | M |
| And talked of freedom to their young | M |
| And God above has smiled to see | C |
| This precious work of liberty | C |
| And watched this second gift He gave | A |
| The dreary lives of men to save | A |
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| And now when liberty's at bay | N |
| And blood stained tyrants force the fray | N |
| Worn warriors battling for the right | O |
| Crushed by oppression's cruel might | O |
| Hear in the dark through which they grope | P |
| America's glad cry of hope | P |
| Man's liberty is not to die | Q |
| America is standing by | Q |
| World wide shall human lives be free | C |
| America has crossed the sea | C |
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| America the land we love | R |
| God's second gift from Heaven above | R |
| Builded and fashioned out of truth | S |
| Sinewed by Him with splendid youth | S |
| For that glad day when shall be furled | Q |
| All tyrant flags throughout the world | Q |
| For this our banner holds the sky | Q |
| That liberty shall never die | Q |
| For this America began | G |
| To make a brotherhood of man | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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