The Homely Pathetic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE EGHGIJKJ LMNMOPQP| The dews are heavy on my brow | A |
| My breath comes hard and low | B |
| Yet mother dear grant one request | C |
| Before your boy must go | B |
| Oh lift me ere my spirit sinks | D |
| And ere my senses fail | E |
| Place me once more O mother dear | F |
| Astride the old fence rail | E |
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| The old fence rail the old fence rail | E |
| How oft these youthful legs | G |
| With Alice' and Ben Bolt's were hung | H |
| Across those wooden pegs | G |
| 'Twas there the nauseating smoke | I |
| Of my first pipe arose | J |
| O mother dear these agonies | K |
| Are far less keen than those | J |
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| I know where lies the hazel dell | L |
| Where simple Nellie sleeps | M |
| I know the cot of Nettie Moore | N |
| And where the willow weeps | M |
| I know the brookside and the mill | O |
| But all their pathos fails | P |
| Beside the days when once I sat | Q |
| Astride the old fence rails | P |
Bret Harte
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