Our Home-our Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCCD EEEEE EFEEF GHGGH IJIIK LELLE MHMMH KNKON EPEEP EQEEQ RPRRP SESSE TBUUB VWVV| FOR THE SEMI CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE | A |
| SETTLEMENT OF CAMBRIDGE MASS DECEMBER | B |
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| YOUR home was mine kind Nature's gift | C |
| My love no years can chill | D |
| In vain their flakes the storm winds sift | C |
| The snow drop hides beneath the drift | C |
| A living blossom still | D |
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| Mute are a hundred long famed lyres | E |
| Hushed all their golden strings | E |
| One lay the coldest bosom fires | E |
| One song one only never tires | E |
| While sweet voiced memory sings | E |
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| No spot so lone but echo knows | E |
| That dear familiar strain | F |
| In tropic isles on arctic snows | E |
| Through burning lips its music flows | E |
| And rings its fond refrain | F |
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| From Pisa's tower my straining sight | G |
| Roamed wandering leagues away | H |
| When lo a frigate's banner bright | G |
| The starry blue the red the white | G |
| In far Livorno's bay | H |
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| Hot leaps the life blood from my heart | I |
| Forth springs the sudden tear | J |
| The ship that rocks by yonder mart | I |
| Is of my land my life a part | I |
| Home home sweet home is here | K |
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| Fades from my view the sunlit scene | L |
| My vision spans the waves | E |
| I see the elm encircled green | L |
| The tower the steeple and between | L |
| The field of ancient graves | E |
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| There runs the path my feet would tread | M |
| When first they learned to stray | H |
| There stands the gambrel roof that spread | M |
| Its quaint old angles o'er my head | M |
| When first I saw the day | H |
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| The sounds that met my boyish ear | K |
| My inward sense salute | N |
| The woodnotes wild I loved to hear | K |
| The robin's challenge sharp and clear | O |
| The breath of evening's flute | N |
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| The faces loved from cradle days | E |
| Unseen alas how long | P |
| As fond remembrance round them plays | E |
| Touched with its softening moonlight rays | E |
| Through fancy's portal throng | P |
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| And see as if the opening skies | E |
| Some angel form had spared | Q |
| Us wingless mortals to surprise | E |
| The little maid with light blue eyes | E |
| White necked and golden haired | Q |
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| So rose the picture full in view | R |
| I paint in feebler song | P |
| Such power the seamless banner knew | R |
| Of red and white and starry blue | R |
| For exiles banished long | P |
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| Oh boys dear boys who wait as men | S |
| To guard its heaven bright folds | E |
| Blest are the eyes that see again | S |
| That banner seamless now as then | S |
| The fairest earth beholds | E |
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| Sweet was the Tuscan air and soft | T |
| In that unfading hour | B |
| And fancy leads my footsteps oft | U |
| Up the round galleries high aloft | U |
| On Pisa's threatening tower | B |
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| And still in Memory's holiest shrine | V |
| I read with pride and joy | W |
| 'For me those stars of empire shine | V |
| That empire's dearest home is mine | V |
| I am a Cambridge boy ' | - |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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