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The Wonderful Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHEHE HIHIJHJE KLKLMEME JNJNHEHE

THERE once was a time when as old songs prove itA
The earth was not round but an endless plainB
The sea was as wide as the heavens above itA
Just millions of miles and begin againC
And that was the time ay and more's the pityD
It ever should end when the world could playE
When singers told tales of a crystal cityD
In a wonderful country far awayE
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But the schools must come with their scales and measuresF
To limit the visions and weigh the spellsG
They scoffed at the dreams and the rainbow treasuresF
And circled the world in their parallelsG
They charted the vales and the sunny meadowsH
Where a poet might ride for a year and a dayE
They sounded the depths and they pierced the shadowsH
Of that wonderful country far awayE
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For fancies they gave us their microscopicsH
For knowledge a rubble of fact and doubtI
Wing broken and caged like a bird from the tropicsH
Romance at the wandering stars looked outI
Cold Reason they said is the earthly EdenJ
Go study its springs and its ores assayH
But fairer the flowers and fields forbiddenJ
Of that wonderful country far awayE
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They questioned the slumbering baby's laughterK
And cautioned its elders to dream by ruleL
All mysteries past and to come hereafterK
Were settled and solved in their common schoolL
But sweeter the streams and the wild birds singingM
The friendships and loves that were true alwayE
The gladness unseen like a far bell ringingM
In that wonderful country far awayE
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Nay not in their Reason our dear illusionJ
But truer than truths that are measured and weighedN
O land of the spirit where no intrusionJ
From bookmen or doubters shall aye be madeN
There still breaks the murmuring sea to greet usH
On shadowy valley and peaceful bayE
And souls that were truest still wait to meet usH
In that wonderful country far awayE

John Boyle O'reilly



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