The Welcome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIIIJJ FIEIKK LILIMM NIOIII| Go let the fatted calf be kill'd | A |
| My prodigal's come home at last | B |
| With noble resolutions fill'd | A |
| And fill'd with sorrow for the past | B |
| No more will burn with love or wine | C |
| But quite has left his women and his swine | C |
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| Welcome ah welcome my poor heart | D |
| Welcome I little thought I'll swear | E |
| 'T is now so long since we did part | D |
| Ever again to see thee here | F |
| Dear wanderer Since from me you fled | G |
| How often have I heard that thou wert dead | G |
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| Hast thou not found each woman's breast | H |
| The lands where thou hast travelled | I |
| Either by savages possest | I |
| Or wild and uninhabited | I |
| What joy couldst take or what repose | J |
| In countries so unciviliz'd as those | J |
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| Lust the scorching dog star here | F |
| Rages with immoderate heat | I |
| Whilst pride the rugged Northern bear | E |
| In others makes the cold too great | I |
| And where these are temperate known | K |
| The soil's all barren sand or rocky stone | K |
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| When once or twice you chanc'd to view | L |
| A rich well govern'd heart | I |
| Like China it admitted you | L |
| But to the frontier part | I |
| From Paradise shut for evermore | M |
| What good is 't that an angel kept the door | M |
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| Well fare the pride and the disdain | N |
| And vanities with beauty join'd | I |
| I ne'er had seen this heart again | O |
| If any fair one had been kind | I |
| My dove but once let loose I doubt | I |
| Would ne'er return had not the flood been out | I |
Abraham Cowley
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