One Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIJJKK BBLLHHMM| ONE country Treason's writhing asp | A |
| Struck madly at her girdle's clasp | A |
| And Hatred wrenched with might and main | B |
| To rend its welded links in twain | B |
| While Mammon hugged his golden calf | C |
| Content to take one broken half | C |
| While thankless churls stood idly by | D |
| And heard unmoved a nation's cry | D |
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| One country 'Nay ' the tyrant crew | E |
| Shrieked from their dens 'it shall be two | E |
| Ill bodes to us this monstrous birth | F |
| That scowls on all the thrones of earth | F |
| Too broad yon starry cluster shines | G |
| Too proudly tower the New World pines | G |
| Tear down the 'banner of the free ' | - |
| And cleave their land from sea to sea ' | - |
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| One country still though foe and 'friend' | H |
| Our seamless empire strove to rend | H |
| Safe safe' though all the fiends of hell | I |
| Join the red murderers' battle yell | I |
| What though the lifted sabres gleam | J |
| The cannons frown by shore and stream | J |
| The sabres clash the cannons thrill | K |
| In wild accord One country still | K |
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| One country in her stress and strain | B |
| We heard the breaking of a chain | B |
| Look where the conquering Nation swings | L |
| Her iron flail its shivered rings | L |
| Forged by the rebels' crimson hand | H |
| That bolt of wrath shall scourge the land | H |
| Till Peace proclaims on sea and shore | M |
| One Country now and evermore | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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