Our First Families Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGBGBHIHI IBIBBJBJ| SWEET are the manners of the wood | A |
| Our only old society | B |
| Where all the folk are glad and good | A |
| In unrebuked variety | B |
| Within this gentle commonweal | C |
| No envy falls with fairy gold | D |
| On jewel weed and Solomon's seal | C |
| Moth mullein and marsh marigold | D |
| No rubied vines despise the lot | E |
| Of ragged neighbors whether moss | F |
| Be flat or tufted matters not | E |
| Pale peat or glittering feather moss | F |
| The common milkwort holds estates | G |
| And wears his purple royalty | B |
| The bluets keep their ancient traits | G |
| With quiet Quaker loyalty | B |
| These families of long descent | H |
| Our tutors in amenities | I |
| Have pedigrees of such extent | H |
| They well may share serenities | I |
| Ere first the hollow Catacombs | I |
| Thrilled to a Christian litany | B |
| There bloomed beside the redmen's homes | I |
| Spicebush and fragrant dittany | B |
| This rock's huge shadow rested on | B |
| Gentian and nodding trillium | J |
| Before the rise of Babylon | B |
| Before the fall of Ilium | J |
Katharine Lee Bates
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