They're Coming Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF AGAGHIHIJKJK LHLHMNMNBFBFTHEY 'RE coming home Thanksgiving Day | A |
They 're coming back once more | B |
And mother's smiles begin to play | A |
The way they did before | B |
The youngsters went away Somehow | C |
She doesn't seem so old | D |
The lines have faded from her brow | C |
She's sprightly now and bold | D |
And yesterday she sang a song | E |
That took me back to when | F |
The youngest merely crept along | E |
And Frank was only ten | F |
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They 're coming home Thanksgiving Day | A |
And mother shows it too | G |
Her hair somehow is not so gray | A |
And in her eyes the blue | G |
Is clearer than it used to be | H |
And in them there's a light | I |
Of love that I was wont to see | H |
When courting her at night | I |
She's singing songs again and in | J |
Her voice there 's not a crack | K |
Once more the dimple's in her chin | J |
For they are coming back | K |
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They 're coming back that's all we know | L |
They 're coming back to see | H |
The mother of the long ago | L |
They 're coming back to me | H |
And we've put off a thousand woes | M |
And shelved a dozen years | N |
In mother's fading cheek the rose | M |
Of June once more appears | N |
The old home seems to thrill once more | B |
The way it used to when | F |
The baby crept along the floor | B |
And Frank was only ten | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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