America For Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IICC CCDD| 'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down | A |
| Among the famous palaces and cities of renown | A |
| To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and kings | B |
| But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things | B |
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| So it's home again and home again America for me | C |
| My heart is turning home again and there I long to be | C |
| In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars | D |
| Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars | D |
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| Oh London is a man's town there's power in the air | E |
| And Paris is a woman's town with flowers in her hair | E |
| And it's sweet to dream in Venice and it's great to study Rome | F |
| But when it comes to living there is no place like home | F |
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| I like the German fir woods in green battalions drilled | G |
| I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing foutains filled | G |
| But oh to take your had my dear and ramble for a day | H |
| In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her sway | H |
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| I know that Europe's wonderful yet something seems to lack | I |
| The Past is too much with her and the people looking back | I |
| But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free | C |
| We love our land for what she is and what she is to be | C |
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| Oh it's home again and home again America for me | C |
| I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea | C |
| To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars | D |
| Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars | D |
Henry Van Dyke
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