How Long? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCE FAAFAGHHGHIJJIKLMMLN AGGAOPQRPQ| How long and yet how long | A |
| Our leaders will we hail from over seas | B |
| Master and kings from feudal monarchies | B |
| And mock their ancient song | A |
| With echoes weak of foreign melodies | B |
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| That distant isle mist wreathed | C |
| Mantled in unimaginable green | D |
| Too long hath been our mistress and our queen | D |
| Our fathers have bequeathed | C |
| Too deep a love for her our hearts within | E |
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| She made the whole world ring | F |
| With the brave exploits of her children strong | A |
| And with the matchless music of her song | A |
| Too late too late we cling | F |
| To alien legends and their strains prolong | A |
| This fresh young world I see | G |
| With heroes cities legends of her own | H |
| With a new race of men and overblown | H |
| By winds from sea to sea | G |
| Decked with the majesty of every zone | H |
| I see the glittering tops | I |
| Of snow peaked mounts the wid'ning vale's expanse | J |
| Large prairies where free herds of horses prance | J |
| Exhaustless wealth of crops | I |
| In vast magnificent extravagance | K |
| These grand exuberant plains | L |
| These stately rivers each with many a mouth | M |
| The exquisite beauty of the soft aired south | M |
| The boundless seas of grains | L |
| Luxuriant forests' lush and splendid growth | N |
| The distant siren song | A |
| Of the green island in the eastern sea | G |
| Is not the lay for this new chivalry | G |
| It is not free and strong | A |
| To chant on prairies 'neath this brilliant sky | O |
| The echo faints and fails | P |
| It suiteth not upon this western plain | Q |
| Out voice or spirit we should stir again | R |
| The wilderness and make the vales | P |
| Resound unto a yet unheard of strain | Q |
Emma Lazarus
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