Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAC DEDDDE FGFFFG HBHHHC| If 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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