Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFG HIHIJKLKFGFGThis word beyond all others | A |
Makes us love our country most | B |
Makes us feel that we are brothers | A |
And a heart united host | B |
With hosanna let our banner | C |
From the house tops be unfurled | D |
While the nation holds her station | E |
With the mightiest of the world | D |
Take your harps from silent willows | F |
Shout the chorus of the free | G |
States are all distinct as billows | F |
Union one as is the sea | G |
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From the land of groves that bore us | H |
He's a traitor who would swerve | I |
By the flag now waving o'er us | H |
We the compact will preserve | I |
Those who gained it and sustained it | J |
Were unto each other true | K |
And the fable well is able | L |
To instruct us what to do | K |
Take your harps from silent willows | F |
Shout the chorus of the free | G |
States are all distinct as billows | F |
Union one as is the sea | G |
George Pope Morris
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