The Native Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACDDEBFGGHEHEEAFG ABFIIAJKBAFICCBC| Where is that country The unresting mind | A |
| Like a lapwing nears and leaves it and returns | B |
| I know those unknown hill springs where they rise | C |
| I know the answer of the elms to the wind | A |
| When the wind on their heaving bosom lies | C |
| And sleeps I know the grouping pines that crown | D |
| The long green hill and fling their darkness down | D |
| A never dying shadow and well I know | E |
| How in the late months the whole wide woodland burns | B |
| Unsmoking and the earth hangs still as still | F |
| I know the town the hamlets and the lone | G |
| Shelterless cottage where the wind's least tone | G |
| Is magnified and his far flung thundering shout | H |
| Brings near the incredible end of the world I know | E |
| Even in sleep walk I should linger about | H |
| Those lanes those streets sure footed and by the unfenced stream go | E |
| Hearing the swift waters past the locked mill flow | E |
| Where is that country It lies in my mind | A |
| Its trees and grassy shape and white gashed hill | F |
| And springs and wind and weather its village stone | G |
| And solitary stone are in my mind | A |
| And every thought familiarly returns | B |
| To find its home and birdlike circling still | F |
| Above the smouldering beeches of November | I |
| And the bare elms and rattled hedgerows of December | I |
| That native country lies deep in my mind | A |
| For every thought and true affection's home | J |
| And like that mental land are you become | K |
| Part of that land and I the thought that turns | B |
| Towards home And as in that familiar land I find | A |
| Myself among each tree spring road and hill | F |
| And at each present step my past footsteps remember | I |
| So you in all my inward being lies | C |
| In you my history my earth and stream and skies | C |
| Your late fire is it that in my boughs yet burns | B |
| Your stone that to my passing footfall cries | C |
John Frederick Freeman
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