Our Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGEGE HIHIEJEJ AEAEEKEK| God grant that we shall never see | A |
| Our country slave to lust and greed | B |
| God grant that here all men shall be | A |
| United by a common creed | B |
| Here Freedom's Flag has held the sky | C |
| Unstained untarnished from its birth | D |
| Long may it wave to typify | C |
| The happiest people on the earth | D |
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| Beneath its folds have mothers smiled | E |
| To see their little ones at play | F |
| No tyrant hand by shame defiled | E |
| To them has barred life's rosy way | F |
| No cruel wall of caste or class | G |
| Has bid men pause or turn aside | E |
| Here looms no gate they may not pass | G |
| Here every door is opened wide | E |
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| Here at the wells of Freedom all | H |
| Who are athirst may drink their fill | I |
| Here fame and fortune wait to call | H |
| The toiler who has proved his skill | I |
| Here wisdom sheds afar its light | E |
| As every morn the school bells ring | J |
| And little children read and write | E |
| And share the knowledge of a king | J |
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| God grant that we shall never see | A |
| Our country slave to lust and greed | E |
| God grant that men shall always be | A |
| United for our nation's need | E |
| Here selfishness has never reigned | E |
| Here freedom all who come may know | K |
| By tyranny our Flag's unstained | E |
| God grant that we may keep it so | K |
Edgar Albert Guest
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