Bohemia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCED FGFGH IJIJJ IKIKK| Bohemia o'er thy unatlassed borders | A |
| How many cross with half reluctant feet | B |
| And unformed fears of dangers and disorders | A |
| To find delights more wholesome and more sweet | B |
| Than ever yet were known to the elite | B |
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| Herein can dwell no pretence and no seeming | C |
| No stilted pride thrives in this atmosphere | D |
| Which stimulates a tendency to dreaming | C |
| The shores of the ideal world from here | E |
| Seem sometimes to be tangible and near | D |
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| We have no use for formal codes of fashion | F |
| No Etiquette f Courts we emulate | G |
| We know it needs sincerity and passion | F |
| To carry out the plans of God or fate | G |
| We do not strive to seem inanimate | H |
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| We call no time lost that we give to pleasure | I |
| Life's hurrying river speeds to Death's great sea | J |
| We cast out no vain plummet line to measure | I |
| Imagined depths of that unknown To Be | J |
| But grasp the Now and fill it full of glee | J |
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| All creeds have room here and we all together | I |
| Devoutly worship at Art's sacred shrine | K |
| But he who dwells once in thy golden weather | I |
| Bohemia sweet lovely land of mine | K |
| Can find no joy outside thy border line | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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