My Childhood's Home I See Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN LOLO DPBP LQLQ OROR QSQS A QTQT JUJU VWXW YZYZ A2B2A2B2 C2D2C2Z E2F2E2F2 G2H2G2I2 LWLW OJ2OJ2 TK2TK2 L2AM2A N2O2P2Q2

CantoA
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My childhood's home I see againB
And sadden with the viewC
And still as memory crowds my brainD
There's pleasure in it tooC
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O Memory thou midway worldE
'Twixt earth and paradiseF
Where things decayed and loved ones lostG
In dreamy shadows riseH
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And freed from all that's earthly vileI
Seem hallowed pure and brightJ
Like scenes in some enchanted isleI
All bathed in liquid lightJ
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As dusky mountains please the eyeK
When twilight chases dayL
As bugle notes that passing byK
In distance die awayL
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As leaving some grand waterfallM
We lingering list its roarN
So memory will hallow allM
We've known but know no moreN
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Near twenty years have passed awayL
Since here I bid farewellO
To woods and fields and scenes of playL
And playmates loved so wellO
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Where many were how few remainD
Of old familiar thingsP
But seeing them to mind againB
The lost and absent bringsP
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The friends I left that parting dayL
How changed as time has spedQ
Young childhood grown strong manhood grayL
And half of all are deadQ
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I hear the loved survivors tellO
How nought from death could saveR
Till every sound appears a knellO
And every spot a graveR
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I range the fields with pensive treadQ
And pace the hollow roomsS
And feel companion of the deadQ
I'm living in the tombsS
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CantoA
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But here's an object more of dreadQ
Than ought the grave containsT
A human form with reason fledQ
While wretched life remainsT
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Poor Matthew Once of genius brightJ
A fortune favored childU
Now locked for aye in mental nightJ
A haggard mad man wildU
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Poor Matthew I have ne'er forgotV
When first with maddened willW
Yourself you maimed your father foughtX
And mother strove to killW
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When terror spread and neighbours ranY
Your dang'rous strength to bindZ
And soon a howling crazy manY
Your limbs were fast confinedZ
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How then you strove and shrieked aloudA2
Your bones and sinnews baredB2
And fiendish on the gazing crowdA2
With burning eye balls glaredB2
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And begged and swore and wept and prayedC2
With maniac laughter joinedD2
How fearful were those signs displayedC2
By pangs that killed thy mindZ
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And when at length tho' drear and longE2
Time soothed thy fiercer woesF2
How plaintively thy mournful songE2
Upon the still night roseF2
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I've heard it oft as if I dreamedG2
Far distant sweet and loneH2
The funeral dirge it ever seemedG2
Of reason dead and goneI2
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To drink its strains I've stole awayL
All stealthily and stillW
Ere yet the rising God of dayL
Had streaked the Eastern hillW
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Air held his breath trees with the spellO
Seemed sorrowing angels roundJ2
Whose swelling tears in dew drops fellO
Upon the listening groundJ2
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But this is past and nought remainsT
That raised thee o'er the bruteK2
Thy piercing shrieks and soothing strainsT
Are like forever muteK2
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Now fare thee well more thou the causeL2
Than subject now of woeA
All mental pangs by time's kind lawsM2
Hast lost the power to knowA
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O death Thou awe inspiring princeN2
That keepst the world in fearO2
Why dost thou tear more blest ones henceP2
And leave him ling'ring hereQ2

Abraham Lincoln



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