America The Beautiful Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FAFACGHG IJKJCLAL MAMACDED| O beautiful for spacious skies | A |
| For amber waves of grain | B |
| For purple mountain majesties | A |
| Above the fruited plain | B |
| America America | C |
| God shed His grace on thee | D |
| And crown thy good with brotherhood | E |
| From sea to shining sea | D |
| - | |
| O beautiful for pilgrim feet | F |
| Whose stern impassioned stress | A |
| A thoroughfare for freedom beat | F |
| Across the wilderness | A |
| America America | C |
| God mend thine every flaw | G |
| Confirm thy soul in self control | H |
| Thy liberty in law | G |
| - | |
| O beautiful for heroes proved | I |
| In liberating strife | J |
| Who more than self their country loved | K |
| And mercy more than life | J |
| America America | C |
| May God thy gold refine | L |
| Till all success be nobleness | A |
| And every gain divine | L |
| - | |
| O beautiful for patriot dream | M |
| That sees beyond the years | A |
| Thine alabaster cities gleam | M |
| Undimmed by human tears | A |
| America America | C |
| God shed His grace on thee | D |
| And crown thy good with brotherhood | E |
| From sea to shining sea | D |
Katharine Lee Bates
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about America The Beautiful poem by Katharine Lee Bates
Best Poems of Katharine Lee Bates