Where Home Was Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAB DEDEFGDE HIHJKKHJ LMLMNNLM ADKDOOAD| 'TWAS yesterday 'twas long ago | A |
| And for this flaunting grimy street | B |
| And for this crowding to and fro | A |
| And thud and roar of wheels and feet | B |
| Were elm trees and the linnet's trill | C |
| The little gurgles of the rill | C |
| And breath of meadow flowers that blow | A |
| Ere roses make the summer sweet | B |
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| 'Twas long ago 'twas yesterday | D |
| Our peach would just be new with leaves | E |
| The swallow pair that used to lay | D |
| Their glimmering eggs beneath our eaves | E |
| Would flutter busy with their brood | F |
| And haply in our hazel wood | G |
| Small village urchins hide at play | D |
| And girls sit binding blue bell sheaves | E |
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| Was the house here or there or there | H |
| No landmark tells All changed all lost | I |
| As when the waves that fret and tear | H |
| The fore shores of some level coast | J |
| Roll smoothly where the sea pinks grew | K |
| All changed and all grown old anew | K |
| And I pass over unaware | H |
| The memories I am seeking most | J |
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| But where these huddled house rows spread | L |
| And where this thickened air hangs murk | M |
| And the dim sun peers round and red | L |
| On stir and haste and cares and work | M |
| For me were baby's daisy chains | N |
| For me the meetings in the lanes | N |
| The shy good morrows softly said | L |
| That paid my morning's lying lurk | M |
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| Oh lingering days of long ago | A |
| Not until now you passed away | D |
| Years wane between and we unknow | K |
| Our youth is always yesterday | D |
| But like a traveller home who craves | O |
| For friends and finds forgotten graves | O |
| I seek you where you dwelt and lo | A |
| Even farewells not left to say | D |
Augusta Davies Webster
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