Our Yankee Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIJDJD KLKLMKNK| LET greener lands and bluer skies | A |
| If such the wide earth shows | B |
| With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes | A |
| Match us the star and rose | B |
| The winds that lift the Georgian's veil | C |
| Or wave Circassia's curls | D |
| Waft to their shores the sultan's sail | C |
| Who buys our Yankee girls | D |
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| The gay grisette whose fingers touch | E |
| Love's thousand chords so well | F |
| The dark Italian loving much | E |
| But more than one can tell | F |
| And England's fair haired blue eyed dame | G |
| Who binds her brow with pearls | D |
| Ye who have seen them can they shame | G |
| Our own sweet Yankee girls | D |
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| And what if court or castle vaunt | H |
| Its children loftier born | I |
| Who heeds the silken tassel's flaunt | H |
| Beside the golden corn | I |
| They ask not for the dainty toil | J |
| Of ribboned knights and earls | D |
| The daughters of the virgin soil | J |
| Our freeborn Yankee girls | D |
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| By every hill whose stately pines | K |
| Wave their dark arms above | L |
| The home where some fair being shines | K |
| To warm the wilds with love | L |
| From barest rock to bleakest shore | M |
| Where farthest sail unfurls | K |
| That stars and stripes are streaming o'er | N |
| God bless our Yankee girls | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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