Selling The Old Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEF GGH I JJKLMM| The little house has grown too small or rather we have grown | A |
| Too big to dwell within the walls where all our joys were known | A |
| And so obedient to the wish of her we love so well | B |
| I have agreed for sordid gold the little home to sell | B |
| Now strangers come to see the place and secretly I sigh | C |
| And deep within my breast I hope that they'll refuse to buy | C |
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| 'This bedroom's small ' one woman said up went her nose in scorn | D |
| To me that is the splendid room where little Bud was born | D |
| 'The walls are sadly finger marked ' another stranger said | E |
| A lump came rising in my throat I felt my cheeks grow red | E |
| 'Yes yes ' I answered 'so they are The fingermarks are free | F |
| But I'd not leave them here if I could take them all with me ' | - |
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| 'The stairway shows the signs of wear ' I answered her in heat | G |
| 'That's but the glorious sign to me of happy little feet | G |
| Most anyone can have a flight of shiny stairs and new | H |
| But those are steps where joy has raced and love and laughter too ' | - |
| 'This paper's ruined Here are scrawled some pencil marks I note ' | - |
| I'd treasured them for years They were the first he ever wrote | I |
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| Oh I suppose we'll sell the place it's right that we should go | J |
| The children must have larger rooms in which to live and grow | J |
| But all my joys were cradled here 'tis here I've lived my best | K |
| 'Tis here whatever else shall come we've been our happiest | L |
| And though into a stranger's hands this home I shall resign | M |
| And take his gold in pay for it I still shall call it mine | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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