The Colonists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGH IIBB JJBB BBKK LLMM| To men now of her blood and race | A |
| England's a little garden place | A |
| Dear as a woman is and she | B |
| The Queen of every loyalty | B |
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| To dwellers 'mid the ice and snows | C |
| She is their secret garden rose | C |
| From which that bee their heart sucks off | D |
| For the cold Winter honey enough | E |
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| To toilers 'mid the sultry plains | F |
| Sick for her tempered suns and rains | F |
| She is the thought that wets their eyes | G |
| And hearts with dew of Paradise | H |
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| Most loved of those who never knew | I |
| Her green o' the silk and her soft blue | I |
| Her mild inviolate fields that be | B |
| Hedged with the sweet briar of the sea | B |
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| Sweet in their dreams her Summers are | J |
| Her tranquil nights of moon and star | J |
| The love songs of her nightingales | B |
| A water spring that never fails | B |
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| Amid their unending distances | B |
| Her little crowded sweetness is | B |
| A dream of rest a dream of prayer | K |
| With homes and children everywhere | K |
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| Touch her and they are all on fire | L |
| This little land of their desire | L |
| Seen in a mirage far away | M |
| With light upon her night and day | M |
Katharine Tynan
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