The Gift Outright Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNNO| The land was ours before we were the land's | A |
| She was our land more than a hundred years | B |
| Before we were her people She was ours | C |
| In Massachusetts in Virginia | D |
| But we were England's still colonials | E |
| Possessing what we still were unpossessed by | F |
| Possessed by what we now no more possessed | G |
| Something we were withholding made us weak | H |
| Until we found out that it was ourselves | I |
| We were withholding from our land of living | J |
| And forthwith found salvation in surrender | K |
| Such as we were we gave ourselves outright | L |
| The deed of gift was many deeds of war | M |
| To the land vaguely realizing westward | N |
| But still unstoried artless unenhanced | N |
| Such as she was such as she would become | O |
Robert Lee Frost
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