My Father-land (from The German Of Theodor Korner) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBAA ACCCAAADDDDD DEFEDD DDDDDD DGGGDDWhere is the minstrel's Father land | A |
Where the sparks of noble spirits flew | B |
Where flowery wreaths for beauty grew | B |
Where strong hearts glowed so glad and true | B |
For all things sacred good and grand | A |
There was my Father land | A |
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How named the minstrel's Father land | A |
O'er slaughtered son 'neath tyrants' yokes | C |
She weepeth now and foreign strokes | C |
They called her once the Land of Oaks | C |
Land of the Free the German Land | A |
Thus was called my Father land | A |
Why weeps the minstrel's Father land | A |
Because while tyrant's tempest hailed | D |
The people's chosen princes quailed | D |
And all their sacred pledges failed | D |
Because she could no ear command | D |
Alas must weep my Father land | D |
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Whom calls the minstrel's Father land | D |
She calls on heaven with wild alarm | E |
With desperation's thunder storm | F |
On Liberty to bare her arm | E |
On Retribution's vengeful hand | D |
On these she calls my Father land | D |
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What would the minstrel's Father land | D |
She would strike the base slaves to the ground | D |
Chase from her soil the tyrant hound | D |
And free her sons in shackles bound | D |
Or lay them free beneath her sand | D |
That would my Father land | D |
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And hopes the minstrel's Father land | D |
She hopes for holy Freedom's sake | G |
Hopes that her true sons will awake | G |
Hopes that just God will vengeance take | G |
And ne'er mistakes the Avenger's hand | D |
Thereon relies my Father land | D |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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