The Palm Branch Of Palestine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GAGA HIHI JKHL AMNM JOPO QRAR NRNR| Palm branch of Palestine oh tell me | A |
| In that far distant home land fair | B |
| Wast rooted in the mountain gravel | C |
| Or sprung from some vale garden rare | B |
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| Once o'er the Jordan's silver billows | D |
| Fond kissed with thee the Eastern sun | E |
| Have the grim gales 'neath starry heavens | F |
| Swept over thee from Lebanon | E |
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| And was a trembling prayer soft whispered | G |
| A father's song sung over thee | A |
| When from the parent stem dis severed | G |
| By some poor aborigine | A |
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| And is the palm tree ever standing | H |
| Amid the fierce glare beating down | I |
| The pilgrim in the desert luring | H |
| To shelter 'neath her shadow crown | I |
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| Perhaps the leaves ancestral shiver | J |
| In unappeased parting pain | K |
| The branch conceals a homesick longing | H |
| For desert wilderness again | L |
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| Was it a pilgrim who first brought thee | A |
| To the cold North with pious hand | M |
| Who mused upon his home in sadness | N |
| And dost thou bear his tear's hot brand | M |
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| Was it Jehovah's favored warrior | J |
| His gleaming head transfigured bright | O |
| For God and man true sworn devoted | P |
| Unto the victory of light | O |
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| Before the wonder working image | Q |
| Thou stand'st as heaven's defence divine | R |
| O branch from out that holy country | A |
| The sanctuary's shield and sign | R |
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| It darkens golden lamp light splendors | N |
| Enveil the cross the sacred shrine | R |
| The peace of God is wafted o'er us | N |
| From thee oh branch of Palestine | R |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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