Home 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FG HHGIIJKL K JMNNOPPQ QRRRRS TTJJUU| Fair was the morning fair our tempers and | A |
| We had seen nothing fairer than that land | B |
| Though strange and the untrodden snow that made | C |
| Wild of the tame casting out all that was | D |
| Not wild and rustic and old and we were glad | E |
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| Fair too was afternoon and first to pass | F |
| Were we that league of snow next the north wind | G |
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| There was nothing to return for except need | H |
| And yet we sang nor ever stopped for speed | H |
| As we did often with the start behind | G |
| Faster still strode we when we came in sight | I |
| Of the cold roofs where we must spend the night | I |
| Happy we had not been there nor could be | J |
| Though we had tasted sleep and food and fellowship | K |
| Together long | L |
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| 'How quick' to someone's lip | K |
| The words came 'will the beaten horse run home ' | - |
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| The word 'home' raised a smile in us all three | J |
| And one repeated it smiling just so | M |
| That all knew what he meant and none would say | N |
| Between three counties far apart that lay | N |
| We were divided and looked strangely each | O |
| At the other and we knew we were not friends | P |
| But fellows in a union that ends | P |
| With the necessity for it as it ought | Q |
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| Never a word was spoken not a thought | Q |
| Was thought of what the look meant with the word | R |
| 'Home' as we walked and watched the sunset blurred | R |
| And then to me the word only the word | R |
| 'Homesick' as it were playfully occurred | R |
| No more | S |
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| If I should ever more admit | T |
| Than the mere word I could not endure it | T |
| For a day longer this captivity | J |
| Must somehow come to an end else I should be | J |
| Another man as often now I seem | U |
| Or this life be only an evil dream | U |
Edward Thomas
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