Ite Domum Saturæ, Venit Hesperus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB AACCB DBDCB EEBFFCCCB ABBCB GGBEEB HHCCCB ABACB| The skies have sunk and hid the upper snow | A |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| The rainy clouds are filing fast below | B |
| And wet will be the path and wet shall we | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| Ah dear and where is he a year agone | A |
| Who stepped beside and cheered us on and on | A |
| My sweetheart wanders far away from me | C |
| In foreign land or on a foreign sea | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| The lightning zigzags shoot across the sky | D |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| And through the vale the rains go sweeping by | D |
| Ah me and when in shelter shall we be | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| Cold dreary cold the stormy winds feel they | E |
| O'er foreign lands and foreign seas that stray | E |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| And doth he e'er I wonder bring to mind | F |
| The pleasant huts and herds he left behind | F |
| And doth he sometimes in his slumbering see | C |
| The feeding kine and doth he think of me | C |
| My sweetheart wandering wheresoe'er it be | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| The thunder bellows far from snow to snow | A |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| And loud and louder roars the flood below | B |
| Heigho but soon in shelter shall we be | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| Or shall he find before his term be sped | G |
| Some comelier maid that he shall wish to wed | G |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| For weary is work and weary day by day | E |
| To have your comfort miles on miles away | E |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| Or may it be that I shall find my mate | H |
| And he returning see himself too late | H |
| For work we must and what we see we see | C |
| And God he knows and what must be must be | C |
| When sweethearts wander far away from me | C |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
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| The sky behind is brightening up anew | A |
| Home Rose and home Provence and La Palie | B |
| The rain is ending and our journey too | A |
| Heigho aha for here at home are we | C |
| In Rose and in Provence and La Palie | B |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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