My Own Green Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBB DEFEFG BHBBIH BJKJEJ BBBBLB LMAMKM ENBNOP QRBSKR MSOSAR BBBBBB ATKTKT LLKUBU BVAVBV KBBBEB| It was in the early morning | A |
| Of life and of hope to me | B |
| I sat on a grassy hillside | C |
| Of the Isle beyond the sea | B |
| Erin's skies of changeful beauty | B |
| Were bending over me | B |
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| The landscape emerald tinted | D |
| Lying smiling in the sun | E |
| The grass with daisies sprinkled | F |
| And with shamrocks over run | E |
| The Maine water flashed and dimpled | F |
| Still flowing softly on | G |
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| The lark in the blue above me | B |
| A tiny speck in the sky | H |
| Rained down from its bosom's fulness | B |
| A shower of melody | B |
| Dropping through the golden sunlight | I |
| And sweetly rippling by | H |
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| Afar in the sunny distance | B |
| O'er the river's further brim | J |
| Like a stern old Norman warder | K |
| Stood the castle tall and grim | J |
| And nearer a grassy ruin | E |
| Where an old name grew dim | J |
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| I knew that the balmy gladness | B |
| Was brooding from sea to sea | B |
| But I felt a note of sadness | B |
| That sobered my youthful glee | B |
| The love of my mother Erin | L |
| Stirred all my heart in me | B |
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| Oh Erin my mother Erin | L |
| Thou land of the tearful smile | M |
| Hearts that feel and hands of helping | A |
| Are thy children's blessed Isle' | M |
| The stranger is so no longer | K |
| That rests on thy breasts awhile | M |
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| Be he Saxon Dane or Norman | E |
| That steps on thy kindly shore | N |
| Who sets his foot on thy daisies | B |
| Is kinder for evermore | N |
| For thy cead mille failtha | O |
| Thrills warm to his bosom's care | P |
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| But Erin never contented | Q |
| Struggles again and again | R |
| As all proud and free born captives | B |
| Must strive with the conqueror's chain | S |
| That if ever snapped asunder | K |
| Is riveted firm again | R |
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| The words of an Hebrew exile | M |
| Like to some sweet song's refrain | S |
| That sweetly goeth and cometh | O |
| And echoes through heart and brain | S |
| Be sure that the day is coming | A |
| When Erin shall rise again | R |
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| She only of all the nations | B |
| Since in dust our temple lies | B |
| Has not our blood on our garments | B |
| Has brought no tears to our eyes | B |
| He says they prosper who love us | B |
| Thy Erin at last shall rise | B |
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| I waited watched for the blessing | A |
| Promised oh so long ago | T |
| I looked for the brilliant future | K |
| The end of the long drawn woe | T |
| My hopes with my years Time the reaper | K |
| Hath laughingly laid them low | T |
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| Oh Erin my mother Erin | L |
| Will to be repeat what has been | L |
| Will your sons ever shoulder to shoulder | K |
| Be strong and united seen | U |
| Will ever the foreign lilies | B |
| Blend with the nation's green | U |
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| For in other lands the peoples | B |
| Quite forgetting ancient wrong | V |
| Have blended and fused becoming | A |
| Because of their union strong | V |
| Leaving all old feuds and battles | B |
| As themes for romance and song | V |
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| From party's Promethean vulture | K |
| When wilt thou get release | B |
| When will the strife of races | B |
| The strife of religions cease | B |
| And the hearts of thy loving children | E |
| Mingle and be at peace | B |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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