My Father-land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBAA ACCCAAADDDDD DEFEDD DDDDDD DGGGDD| Where 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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