Native Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFGEHIHIJIJIIEIEJCJC| I love my native land with such perverse affection | A |
| My better judgement has no standing here | B |
| Not glory won in bloody action | A |
| nor yet that calm demeanour trusting and austere | C |
| nor yet age hallowed rites or handed down traditions | D |
| not one can stir my soul to gratifying visions | D |
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| And yet I love a mystery to me | E |
| her dreary steppelands wrapped in icy silence | F |
| her boundless swaying forest mantled highlands | G |
| the flood waters in springtime ample as the sea | E |
| I love to jolt along a narrow country byway | H |
| and slowly peering through the darkness up ahead | I |
| while sighing for a lodging glimpse across the highway | H |
| the mournful trembling fires of villages outspread | I |
| I love the smoke of stubble blazing | J |
| heaped wagons on the steppe at night | I |
| a hill mid yellow cornfields raising | J |
| a pair of birch trees silver bright | I |
| With pleasure few have yet discovered | I |
| a laden granary I see | E |
| a hut with straw thatch neatly covered | I |
| carved window shutters swinging free | E |
| On feast nights with the dew descending | J |
| I'll watch till midnight never fear | C |
| the dance the stamps and whistles blending | J |
| with mumbling rustics full of beer | C |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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