Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAC DEDDDE FGFFFG HBHHHCIf I ever go back to Baltimore | A |
The city of Maryland | B |
I shall miss again as I missed before | A |
A thousand things of the world in store | A |
The story standing in every door | A |
That beckons with every hand | C |
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I shall not know where the bonds were riven | D |
And a hundred faiths set free | E |
Where a wandering cavalier had given | D |
Her hundredth name to the Queen of Heaven | D |
And made oblation of feuds forgiven | D |
To Our Lady of Liberty | E |
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I shall not travel the tracks of fame | F |
Where the war was not to the strong | G |
When Lee the last of the heroes came | F |
With the Men of the South and a flag like flame | F |
And called the land by its lovely name | F |
In the unforgotten song | G |
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If ever I cross the sea and stray | H |
To the city of Maryland | B |
I will sit on a stone and watch or pray | H |
For a stranger's child that was there one day | H |
And the child will never come back to play | H |
And no one will understand | C |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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