Thoughts Of Home.1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF FFGGHH IJKKLL MMFFAA| I watched them from the window thy children at their play | A |
| And I thought of all my own dear friends who were far oh far away | A |
| And childish loves and childish cares and a child's own buoyant gladness | B |
| Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness | B |
| And feelings frozen up full long and thoughts of long ago | C |
| Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow | C |
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| I looked upon thy children and I thought of all and each | D |
| Of my brother and my sister and our rambles on the beach | D |
| Of my mother's gentle voice and my mother's beckoning hand | E |
| And all the tales she used to tell of the far far English land | E |
| And the happy happy evening hours when I sat on my father's knee | F |
| Oh many a wave is rolling now betwixt that seat and me | F |
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| And many a day has passed away since I left them o'er the sea | F |
| And I have lived a life since then of boyhood's thoughtless glee | F |
| Yet of the blessed times gone by not seldom would I dream | G |
| And childhood's joy like faint far stars in memory's heaven would gleam | G |
| And o'er the sea to those I loved my thoughts would often roam | H |
| But never knew I until now the blessings of a home | H |
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| I used to think when I was there that my own true home was here | I |
| But home is not in land or sky but in those whom each holds dear | J |
| The evening's cooling breeze is fanning my temples now | K |
| But then my frame was languid and heated was my brow | K |
| And I longed for England's cool and for England's breezes then | L |
| But now I would give full many a breeze to be back in the heat again | L |
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| But when cold strange looks without and proud high thoughts within | M |
| Are weaving round my heart the woof of selfishness and sin | M |
| When self begins to roll a far a worse and wider sea | F |
| Of careless and unloving thoughts between those friends and me | F |
| I will think upon these moments and call to mind the day | A |
| When I watched them from the window thy children at their play | A |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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