Down About Old Shakertown. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB| You may boast about the landscapes fair so far across the sea | A |
| Of castled Rhine and southern France and favored Italy | A |
| But have you seen when Springtime flings the scented blossoms down | B |
| The forests and the meadows green around old Shakertown | B |
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| You may boast of some that bask beneath perpetual Summer's smiles | C |
| Those Eden's of the eastern wave the sunny Grecian isles | C |
| And others that perhaps you've seen of beauty and renown | B |
| But come and view the country spread around old Shakertown | B |
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| O come and boast that you have been where Nature's lavish hand | D |
| Bestowed the gifts of wood and field that vie with any land | D |
| Where valleys wear a velvet robe the hills an emerald crown | B |
| Of bluegrass shimmering in the sun around old Shakertown | B |
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| O come to old Kentucky then and to her garden spot | E |
| Then wander wheresoe'er you will it ne'er will be forgot | E |
| For Nature's face is wreathed in smiles nor wears a single frown | B |
| To mar the beauty she has spread around old Shakertown | B |
George W. Doneghy
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