The Old Homestead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFHIJIJDKDK LMLM| JEST as atween the awk'ard lines a hand we love has penn'd | A |
| Appears a meanin' hid from other eyes | B |
| So in your simple homespun art old honest Yankee friend | A |
| A power o' tearful sweet seggestion lies | B |
| We see it all the pictur' that our mem'ries hold so dear | C |
| The homestead in New England far away | D |
| An' the vision is so nat'ral like we almost seem to hear | E |
| The voices that were heshed but yesterday | D |
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| Ah who'd ha' thought the music of that distant childhood time | F |
| Would sleep through all the changeful bitter years | G |
| To waken into melodies like Chris'mas bells a chime | F |
| An' to claim the ready tribute of our tears | H |
| Why the robins in the maples an' the blackbirds round the pond | I |
| The crickets an' the locusts in the leaves | J |
| The brook that chased the trout adown the hillside just beyond | I |
| An' the swallers in their nests beneath the eaves | J |
| They all come troopin' back with you dear Uncle Josh to day | D |
| An' they seem to sing with all the joyous zest | K |
| Of the days when we were Yankee boys an' Yankee girls at play | D |
| With nary thought of livin' way out West | K |
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| God bless ye Denman Thomps'n for the good y' do our hearts | L |
| With this music an' these memories o' youth | M |
| God bless ye for the faculty that tops all human arts | L |
| The good ol' Yankee faculty of Truth | M |
Eugene Field
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