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 N2O2P2Q2Canto | A |
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My childhood's home I see again | B |
And sadden with the view | C |
And still as memory crowds my brain | D |
There's pleasure in it too | C |
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O Memory thou midway world | E |
'Twixt earth and paradise | F |
Where things decayed and loved ones lost | G |
In dreamy shadows rise | H |
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And freed from all that's earthly vile | I |
Seem hallowed pure and bright | J |
Like scenes in some enchanted isle | I |
All bathed in liquid light | J |
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As dusky mountains please the eye | K |
When twilight chases day | L |
As bugle notes that passing by | K |
In distance die away | L |
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As leaving some grand waterfall | M |
We lingering list its roar | N |
So memory will hallow all | M |
We've known but know no more | N |
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Near twenty years have passed away | L |
Since here I bid farewell | O |
To woods and fields and scenes of play | L |
And playmates loved so well | O |
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Where many were how few remain | D |
Of old familiar things | P |
But seeing them to mind again | B |
The lost and absent brings | P |
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The friends I left that parting day | L |
How changed as time has sped | Q |
Young childhood grown strong manhood gray | L |
And half of all are dead | Q |
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I hear the loved survivors tell | O |
How nought from death could save | R |
Till every sound appears a knell | O |
And every spot a grave | R |
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I range the fields with pensive tread | Q |
And pace the hollow rooms | S |
And feel companion of the dead | Q |
I'm living in the tombs | S |
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Canto | A |
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But here's an object more of dread | Q |
Than ought the grave contains | T |
A human form with reason fled | Q |
While wretched life remains | T |
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Poor Matthew Once of genius bright | J |
A fortune favored child | U |
Now locked for aye in mental night | J |
A haggard mad man wild | U |
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Poor Matthew I have ne'er forgot | V |
When first with maddened will | W |
Yourself you maimed your father fought | X |
And mother strove to kill | W |
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When terror spread and neighbours ran | Y |
Your dang'rous strength to bind | Z |
And soon a howling crazy man | Y |
Your limbs were fast confined | Z |
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How then you strove and shrieked aloud | A2 |
Your bones and sinnews bared | B2 |
And fiendish on the gazing crowd | A2 |
With burning eye balls glared | B2 |
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And begged and swore and wept and prayed | C2 |
With maniac laughter joined | D2 |
How fearful were those signs displayed | C2 |
By pangs that killed thy mind | Z |
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And when at length tho' drear and long | E2 |
Time soothed thy fiercer woes | F2 |
How plaintively thy mournful song | E2 |
Upon the still night rose | F2 |
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I've heard it oft as if I dreamed | G2 |
Far distant sweet and lone | H2 |
The funeral dirge it ever seemed | G2 |
Of reason dead and gone | I2 |
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To drink its strains I've stole away | L |
All stealthily and still | W |
Ere yet the rising God of day | L |
Had streaked the Eastern hill | W |
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Air held his breath trees with the spell | O |
Seemed sorrowing angels round | J2 |
Whose swelling tears in dew drops fell | O |
Upon the listening ground | J2 |
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But this is past and nought remains | T |
That raised thee o'er the brute | K2 |
Thy piercing shrieks and soothing strains | T |
Are like forever mute | K2 |
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Now fare thee well more thou the cause | L2 |
Than subject now of woe | A |
All mental pangs by time's kind laws | M2 |
Hast lost the power to know | A |
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O death Thou awe inspiring prince | N2 |
That keepst the world in fear | O2 |
Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence | P2 |
And leave him ling'ring here | Q2 |
Abraham Lincoln
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