New England Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIH| My mind matches this understand land | A |
| Outdoors the pencilled tree the wind carved drift | B |
| Indoors the constant fire the careful thrift | B |
| Are facts that I accept and understand | A |
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| I have brought in red berries and green boughs | C |
| Berries of black alder boughs of pine | D |
| They and the sunlight on them both are mine | D |
| I need no florist flowers in my house | E |
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| Having lived here the years that are my best | F |
| I call it home I am content to stay | G |
| I have no bird's desire to fly away | G |
| I envy neither north east south nor west | F |
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| My outer world and inner make a pair | H |
| But would the two be always of a kind | I |
| Another latitude another mind | I |
| Or would I be New England anywhere | H |
Robert Francis
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