My Native Isle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJDKD LMNMOPQP RSTSUESE VWXWYSZS A2B2C2B2D2QE2Q DF2G2F2H2I2J2I2 GHK2HL2M2BM2| My native isle my native isle | A |
| For ever round thy sunny steep | B |
| The low waves curl with sparkling foam | C |
| And solemn murmurs deep | B |
| While o'er the surging waters blue | D |
| The ceaseless breezes throng | E |
| And in the grand old woods awake | F |
| An everlasting song | E |
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| The sordid strife and petty cares | G |
| That crowd the city's street | H |
| The rush the race the storm of Life | I |
| Upon thee never meet | H |
| But quiet and contented hearts | J |
| Their daily tasks fulfil | D |
| And meet with simple hope and trust | K |
| The coming good or ill | D |
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| The spireless church stands plain and brown | L |
| The winding road beside | M |
| The green graves rise in silence near | N |
| With moss grown tablets wide | M |
| And early on the Sabbath morn | O |
| Along the flowery sod | P |
| Unfettered souls with humble prayer | Q |
| Go up to worship God | P |
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| And dearer far than sculptured fane | R |
| Is that gray church to me | S |
| For in its shade my mother sleeps | T |
| Beneath the willow tree | S |
| And often when my heart is raised | U |
| By sermon and by song | E |
| Her friendly smile appears to me | S |
| From the seraphic throng | E |
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| The sunset glow the moonlit stream | V |
| Part of my being are | W |
| The fairy flowers that bloom and die | X |
| The skies so clear and far | W |
| The stars that circle Night's dark brow | Y |
| The winds and waters free | S |
| Each with a lesson all its own | Z |
| Are monitors to me | S |
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| The systems in their endless march | A2 |
| Eternal truth proclaim | B2 |
| The flowers God's love from day to day | C2 |
| In gentlest accents name | B2 |
| The skies for burdened hearts and faint | D2 |
| A code of Faith prepare | Q |
| What tempest ever left the Heaven | E2 |
| Without a blue spot there | Q |
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| My native isle my native isle | D |
| In sunnier climes I've strayed | F2 |
| But better love thy pebbled beach | G2 |
| And lonely forest glade | F2 |
| Where low winds stir with fragrant breath | H2 |
| The purple violet's head | I2 |
| And the star grass in the early Spring | J2 |
| Peeps from the sear leaf's bed | I2 |
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| I would no more of strife and tears | G |
| Might on thee ever meet | H |
| But when against the tide of years | K2 |
| This heart has ceased to beat | H |
| Where the green weeping willows bend | L2 |
| I fain would go to rest | M2 |
| Where waters chant and winds may sweep | B |
| Above my peaceful breast | M2 |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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