The Best Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFFGGHH IJKKLM| If I knew a better land on this glorious world of ours | A |
| Where a man gets bigger money and is working shorter hours | A |
| If the Briton or the Frenchman had an easier life than mine | B |
| I'd pack my goods this minute and I'd sail across the brine | B |
| But I notice when an alien wants a land of hope and cheer | C |
| And a future for his children he comes out and settles here | D |
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| Here's the glorious land of Freedom | E |
| Here's the milk and honey goal | F |
| For the peasant out of Russia for the long subjected Pole | F |
| It is here the sons of Italy and men of Austria turn | G |
| For the comfort of their bodies and the wages they can earn | G |
| And with all that men complain of and with all that goes amiss | H |
| There's no happier better nation on the world's broad face than this | H |
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| So I'm thinking when I listen to the wails of discontent | I |
| And some foreign disbeliever spreads his evil sentiment | J |
| That the breed of hate and envy that is sowing sin and shame | K |
| In this glorious land of Freedom should go back from whence it came | K |
| And I hold it is the duty rich or poor of every man | L |
| Who enjoys this country's bounty to be ALL American | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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