To My Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACB DEDFDFF FGFFFFG HIHJHHI AKAJAJK| O dear my Country beautiful and dear | A |
| Love cloth not darken sight | B |
| God looketh through Love's eyes whose vision clear | A |
| Beholds more flaws than keenest Hate hath known | C |
| Nor is Love's judgment gentle but austere | A |
| The heart of Love must break ere it condone | C |
| One stain upon the white | B |
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| There comes an hour when on the parent turns | D |
| The challenge of the child | E |
| The bridal passion for perfection burns | D |
| Life gives her last allegiance to the best | F |
| Each sweet idolatry the spirit spurns | D |
| Once more enfranchised for its starry quest | F |
| Of beauty undefiled | F |
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| Love must be one with honor yet to day | F |
| Love liveth by a sign | G |
| Allows no lasting compromise with clay | F |
| But tends the mounting miracle of gold | F |
| Content with service till the bud make way | F |
| To the rejoicing sunbeams that unfold | F |
| Its culminant divine | G |
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| There is a rumoring among the stars | H |
| A trouble in the sun | I |
| Freedom most holy word hath fallen at jars | H |
| With her own deeds 'tis Mammon's jubilee | J |
| Again the cross contends with scimitars | H |
| The seraphim look down with dread to see | H |
| Earth's noblest hope undone | I |
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| O dear my Country beautiful and dear | A |
| Ultimate dream of Time | K |
| By all thy millions longing to revere | A |
| A pure august authentic commonweal | J |
| Climb to the light Imperiled Pioneer | A |
| Of Brotherhood among the nations seal | J |
| Our faith with thy sublime | K |
Katharine Lee Bates
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