Life In The West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCDDE AAAABFBGDDE HIHIHJHJDDE| Ho brothers come hither and list to my story | A |
| Merry and brief will the narrative be | A |
| Here like a monarch I reign in my glory | A |
| Master am I boys of all that I see | A |
| Where once frowned a forest a garden is smiling | B |
| The meadow and moorland are marshes no more | C |
| And there curls the smoke of my cottage beguiling | B |
| The children who cluster like grapes round my door | C |
| Then enter boys cheerly boys enter and rest | D |
| The land of the heart is the land of the West | D |
| Oho boys oho boys oho | E |
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| Talk not of the town boys give me the broad prairie | A |
| Where man like the wind roams impulsive and free | A |
| Behold how its beautiful colors all vary | A |
| Like those of the clouds or the deep rolling sea | A |
| A life in the woods boys is even as changing | B |
| With proud independence we season our cheer | F |
| And those who the world are for happiness ranging | B |
| Won't find it at all if they don't find it here | G |
| Then enter boys cheerly boys enter and rest | D |
| I'll show you the life boys we live in the West | D |
| Oho boys oho boys oho | E |
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| Here brothers secure from all turmoil and danger | H |
| We reap what we sow for the soil is our own | I |
| We spread hospitality's board for the stranger | H |
| And care not a jot for the king on his throne | I |
| We never know want for we live by our labor | H |
| And in it contentment and happiness find | J |
| We do what we can for a friend or a neighbor | H |
| And die boys in peace and good will to mankind | J |
| Then enter boys cheerly boys enter and rest | D |
| You know how we live boys and die in the West | D |
| Oho boys oho boys oho | E |
George Pope Morris
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