They're Coming Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF AGAGHIHIJKJK LHLHMNMNBFBF| THEY '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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