Our State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFFGGHHAA IIJKFFLL| THE South land boasts its teeming cane | A |
| The prairied West its heavy grain | A |
| And sunset's radiant gates unfold | B |
| On rising marts and sands of gold | B |
| Rough bleak and hard our little State | C |
| Is scant of soil of limits strait | C |
| Her yellow sands are sands alone | D |
| Her only mines are ice and stone | D |
| From Autumn frost to April rain | A |
| Too long her winter woods complain | A |
| Fom budding flower to falling leaf | E |
| Her summer time is all too brief | E |
| Yet on her rocks and on her sands | F |
| And wintry hills the school house stands | F |
| And what her rugged soil denies | G |
| The harvest of the mind supplies | G |
| The riches of the Commonwealth | H |
| Are free strong minds and hearts of health | H |
| And more to her than gold or grain | A |
| The cunning hand and cultured brain | A |
| For well she keeps her ancient stock | I |
| The stubborn strength of Pilgrim Rock | I |
| And still maintains with milder laws | J |
| And clearer light the Good Old Cause | K |
| Nor heeds the skeptic's puny hands | F |
| While near her school the church spire stands | F |
| Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule | L |
| While near her church spire stands the school | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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