O Southland! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGDIJI AKLKMNON APQPRSTS| O Southland O Southland | A |
| Have you not heard the call | B |
| The trumpet blown the word made known | C |
| To the nations one and all | B |
| The watchword the hope word | D |
| Salvation's present plan | E |
| A gospel new for all for you | F |
| Man shall be saved by man | E |
| - | |
| O Southland O Southland | A |
| Do you not hear to day | G |
| The mighty beat of onward feet | H |
| And know you not their way | G |
| 'Tis forward 'tis upward | D |
| On to the fair white arch | I |
| Of Freedom's dome and there is room | J |
| For each man who would march | I |
| - | |
| O Southland fair Southland | A |
| Then why do you still cling | K |
| To an idle age and a musty page | L |
| To a dead and useless thing | K |
| 'Tis springtime 'Tis work time | M |
| The world is young again | N |
| And God's above and God is love | O |
| And men are only men | N |
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| O Southland my Southland | A |
| O birthland do not shirk | P |
| The toilsome task nor respite ask | Q |
| But gird you for the work | P |
| Remember remember | R |
| That weakness stalks in pride | S |
| That he is strong who helps along | T |
| The faint one at his side | S |
James Weldon Johnson
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