The Home Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGH IIII JJII AAII KKLL KKDD| Trust and treachery wisdom folly | A |
| Madness mirth and melancholy | A |
| Love and hatred thrift and pillage | B |
| All are housed in every village | C |
| And in such a world s mixed being | D |
| Where may peace from ruin fleeing | D |
| Find fit shelter and inherit | E |
| All the calm of her own merit | E |
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| In a bark of gentle motion | F |
| Sailing on the summer ocean | F |
| There worst war the tempest wages | G |
| And the hungry whirlpool rages | H |
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| In some lonely new world bower | I |
| Hidden like a forest flower | I |
| There too there to fray the stranger | I |
| Stalks the wild eyed savage danger | I |
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| In some Alpine cot by fountains | J |
| Flowing from snow shining mountains | J |
| There the avalanches thunder | I |
| Crushing all that lieth under | I |
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| In some hermit tent pitched lowly | A |
| Mid the tombs of prophets holy | A |
| There to harry and annoy her | I |
| Roams the infidel destroyer | I |
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| In palatial chambers gilded | K |
| Guarded round with towers high builded | K |
| Change may enter these to morrow | L |
| And with change may enter sorrow | L |
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| Find O peace thy home of beauty | K |
| In the steadfast heart of duty | K |
| Dwelling ever there and seeing | D |
| God through every phase of being | D |
Charles Harpur
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