Hearthside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBC DDEFEF GGHIHI JJKLKL| Half across the world from me | A |
| Lie the lands I'll never see | A |
| I whose longing lives and dies | B |
| Where a ship has sailed away | C |
| I that never close my eyes | B |
| But to look upon Cathay | C |
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| Things I may not know nor tell | D |
| Wait where older waters swell | D |
| Ways that flowered at Sappho's tread | E |
| Winds that sighed in Homer's strings | F |
| Vibrant with the singing dead | E |
| Golden with the dust of wings | F |
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| Under deeper skies than mine | G |
| Quiet valleys dip and shine | G |
| Where their tender grasses heal | H |
| Ancient scars of trench and tomb | I |
| I shall never walk nor kneel | H |
| Where the bones of poets bloom | I |
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| If I seek a lovelier part | J |
| Where I travel goes my heart | J |
| Where I stray my thought must go | K |
| With me wanders my desire | L |
| Best to sit and watch the snow | K |
| Turn the lock and poke the fire | L |
Dorothy Parker
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