Reflection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCDCD GHGHCDCD IJKLCDCD| You have given me riches and ease | A |
| You have given me joys through the years | B |
| I have sat in the shade of your trees | A |
| With the song of your birds in my ears | B |
| I have drunk of your bountiful wine | C |
| And done as I've chosen to do | D |
| But oh wonderful country of mine | C |
| 'How little have I done for you | D |
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| You have given me safe harbor from harm | E |
| Untroubled I've slept through the nights | F |
| And have waked to the new morning's charm | E |
| And claimed as my own its delights | F |
| I have taken the finest of fine | C |
| From your orchards and fields where it grew | D |
| But oh wonderful country of mine | C |
| How little I've given to you | D |
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| You have given me a home and a place | G |
| Where in safety my babies may play | H |
| Health blooms on each bright dimpled face | G |
| And laughter is theirs every day | H |
| You have guarded from danger the shrine | C |
| Where I worship when toiling is through | D |
| But oh wonderful country of mine | C |
| How little have I done for you | D |
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| I have taken your gifts without thought | I |
| I have revelled in joys that you gave | J |
| That I see now with blood had been bought | K |
| The blood of your earlier braves | L |
| I have lived without making one sign | C |
| That the source of my riches I knew | D |
| Now oh wonderful country of mine | C |
| I'm here to do something for you | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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