Kentucky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAD EFEF GHGH CICI JKJK ALAL MNCN OPOP CJCJ| You who are met to remember | A |
| Kentucky and give her praise | B |
| Who have warmed your hearts at the ember | A |
| Of her love for many days | B |
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| Be faithful to your mother | A |
| However your ways may run | C |
| And holding one to the other | A |
| Prove worthy to be her sons | D |
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| Worthy of her who brought you | E |
| Worthy in dream and deed | F |
| Worthy her love that taught you | E |
| And holds your work in heed | F |
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| Your work she weighs and watches | G |
| Giving it praise and blame | H |
| As to her heart she catches | G |
| Or sets aside in shame | H |
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| One with her heart's devotion | C |
| One with her soul's firm will | I |
| She holds to the oldtime notion | C |
| Of what is good what ill | I |
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| And still in unspoiled beauty | J |
| With all her pioneer pride | K |
| She keeps to the path of duty | J |
| And never turns aside | K |
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| She dons no new attire | A |
| Of modern modes and tricks | L |
| And stands for something higher | A |
| Than merely politics | L |
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| For much the world must think on | M |
| For dreams as well as deeds | N |
| For men like Clay and Lincoln | C |
| And words the whole world reads | N |
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| Not for her manners gracious | O |
| Nor works nor courage of | P |
| Convictions proud audacious | O |
| Does she compel our love | P |
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| But for her heart's one passion | C |
| Old as democracy | J |
| That holds to the ancient fashion | C |
| Of hospitality | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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