The Home-town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB HIHIADAD HJHKLMLM| Some folks leave home for money | A |
| And some leave home for fame | B |
| Some seek skies always sunny | A |
| And some depart in shame | B |
| I care not what the reason | C |
| Men travel east and west | D |
| Or what the month or season | C |
| The home town is the best | D |
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| The home town is the glad town | E |
| Where something real abides | F |
| 'Tis not the money mad town | E |
| That all its spirit hides | F |
| Though strangers scoff and flout it | G |
| And even jeer its name | B |
| It has a charm about it | G |
| No other town can claim | B |
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| The home town skies seem bluer | H |
| Than skies that stretch away | I |
| The home town friends seem truer | H |
| And kinder through the day | I |
| And whether glum or cheery | A |
| Light hearted or depressed | D |
| Or struggle fit or weary | A |
| I like the home town best | D |
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| Let him who will go wander | H |
| To distant towns to live | J |
| Of some things I am fonder | H |
| Than all they have to give | K |
| The gold of distant places | L |
| Could not repay me quite | M |
| For those familiar faces | L |
| That keep the home town bright | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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