Homesick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHEI JKLKMJNJGOFOPIQI GQRQFOSOTIFI| It's tough when you are homesick in a strange | A |
| and distant place | B |
| It's anguish when you're hungry for an | C |
| old familiar face | B |
| And yearning for the good folks and the joys | D |
| you used to know | E |
| When you're miles away from friendship is a | F |
| bitter sort of woe | E |
| But it's tougher let me tell you and a stiffer | G |
| discipline | H |
| To see them through the window and to know | E |
| you can't go in | I |
| - | |
| Oh I never knew the meaning of that red sign | J |
| on the door | K |
| Never really understood it never thought of it | L |
| before | K |
| But I'll never see another since they've tacked | M |
| one up on mine | J |
| But I'll think about the father that is barred | N |
| from all that's fine | J |
| And I'll think about the mother who is prisoner | G |
| in there | O |
| So her little son or daughter shall not miss a | F |
| mother's care | O |
| And I'll share a fellow feeling with the saddest | P |
| of my kin | I |
| The dad beside the gateway of the home he | Q |
| can't go in | I |
| - | |
| Oh we laugh and joke together and the mother | G |
| tries to be | Q |
| Brave and sunny in her prison and she thinks | R |
| she's fooling me | Q |
| And I do my bravest smiling and I feign a | F |
| merry air | O |
| In the hope she won't discover that I'm | S |
| burdened down with care | O |
| But it's only empty laughter and there's nothing | T |
| in the grin | I |
| When you're talking through the window of the | F |
| home you can't go in | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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