My English Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE AFAF GHIH JEKE ALAL EMEN| When each white moon her lantern idly swinging | A |
| Comes out to join the star night watching band | B |
| Across the grey green sea a ship is bringing | A |
| For me a letter from the Motherland | B |
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| Naught would I care to live in quaint old Britain | C |
| These wilder shores are dearer far to me | D |
| Yet when I read the words that hand has written | C |
| The parent sod more precious seems to be | D |
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| Within that folded note I catch the savour | E |
| Of climes that make the Motherland so fair | E |
| Although I never knew the blessed favour | E |
| That surely lies in breathing English air | E |
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| Imagination's brush before me fleeing | A |
| Paints English pictures though my longing eyes | F |
| Have never known the blessedness of seeing | A |
| The blue that lines the arch of English skies | F |
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| And yet my letter brings the scenes I covet | G |
| Framed in the salt sea winds aye more in dreams | H |
| I almost see the face that bent above it | I |
| I almost touch that hand so near it seems | H |
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| Near for the very grey green sea that dashes | J |
| 'Round these Canadian coasts rolls out once more | E |
| To Eastward and the same Atlantic splashes | K |
| Her wild white spray on England's distant shore | E |
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| Near for the same young moon so idly swinging | A |
| Her threadlike crescent bends the selfsame smile | L |
| On that old land from whence a ship is bringing | A |
| My message from the transatlantic Isle | L |
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| Thus loves my heart that far old country better | E |
| Because of those dear words that always come | M |
| With love enfolded in each English letter | E |
| That drifts into my sun kissed Western home | N |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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