Patria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE| I would not even ask my heart to say | A |
| If I could love some other land as well | B |
| As thee my country had I felt the spell | B |
| Of Italy at birth or learned to obey | A |
| The charm of France or England's mighty sway | A |
| I would not be so much an infidel | B |
| As once to dream or fashion words to tell | B |
| What land could hold my love from thee away | A |
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| For like a law of nature in my blood | C |
| I feel thy sweet and secret sovereignty | D |
| And woven through my soul thy vital sign | E |
| My life is but a wave and thou the flood | C |
| I am a leaf and thou the mother tree | D |
| Nor should I be at all were I not thine | E |
Henry Van Dyke
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