In Bohemia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFAAGGHHIIJ J AKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSTU UAA| I'D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land | A |
| For only there are the values true | B |
| And the laurels gathered in all men's view | B |
| The prizes of traffic and state are won | C |
| By shrewdness or force or by deeds undone | C |
| But fame is sweeter without the feud | D |
| And the wise of Bohemia are never shrewd | D |
| Here pilgrims stream with a faith sublime | E |
| From every class and clime and time | E |
| Aspiring only to be enrolled | F |
| With the names that are writ in the book of gold | F |
| And each one bears in mind or hand | A |
| A palm of the dear Bohemian land | A |
| The scholar first with his book a youth | G |
| Aflame with the glory of harvested truth | G |
| A girl with a picture a man with a play | H |
| A boy with a wolf he has modeled in clay | H |
| A smith with a marvelous hilt and sword | I |
| A player a king a plowman a lord | I |
| And the player is king when the door is past | J |
| The plowman is crowned and the lord is last | J |
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| I'd rather fail in Bohemia than win in another land | A |
| There are no titles inherited there | K |
| No hoard or hope for the brainless heir | K |
| No gilded dullard native born | L |
| To stare at his fellow with leaden scorn | L |
| Bohemia has none but adopted sons | M |
| Its limits where Fancy's bright stream runs | M |
| Its honors not garnered for thrift or trade | N |
| But for beauty and truth men's souls have made | N |
| To the empty heart in a jeweled breast | O |
| There is value maybe in a purchased crest | O |
| But the thirsty of soul soon learn to know | P |
| The moistureless froth of the social show | P |
| The vulgar sham of the pompous feast | Q |
| Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest | Q |
| The organized charity scrimped and iced | R |
| In the name of a cautious statistical Christ | R |
| The smile restrained the respectable cant | S |
| When a friend in need is a friend in want | T |
| Where the only aim is to keep afloat | U |
| And a brother may drown with a cry in his throat | U |
| Oh I long for the glow of a kindly heart and the grasp of a friendly hand | A |
| And I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land | A |
John Boyle O'reilly
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