Home, Sweet Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKGK JLGL MNIN ODGD PNGN JQPQ GNGN MRJR| Sharers of a common country | A |
| They had met in deadly strife | B |
| Men who should have been as brothers | C |
| Madly sought each other's life | B |
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| In the silence of the even | D |
| When the cannon's lips were dumb | E |
| Thoughts of home and all its loved ones | F |
| To the soldier's heart would come | E |
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| On the margin of a river | G |
| 'Mid the evening's dews and damps | H |
| Could be heard the sounds of music | I |
| Rising from two hostile camps | H |
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| One was singing of its section | J |
| Down in Dixie Dixie's land | K |
| And the other of the banner | G |
| Waved so long from strand to strand | K |
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| In the land where Dixie's ensign | J |
| Floated o'er the hopeful slave | L |
| Rose the song that freedom's banner | G |
| Starry lighted long might wave | L |
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| From the fields of strife and carnage | M |
| Gentle thoughts began to roam | N |
| And a tender strain of music | I |
| Rose with words of Home Sweet Home | N |
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| Then the hearts of strong men melted | O |
| For amid our grief and sin | D |
| Still remains that touch of nature | G |
| Telling us we all are kin | D |
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| In one grand but gentle chorus | P |
| Floating to the starry dome | N |
| Came the words that brought them nearer | G |
| Words that told of Home Sweet Home | N |
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| For awhile all strife forgotten | J |
| They were only brothers then | Q |
| Joining in the sweet old chorus | P |
| Not as soldiers but as men | Q |
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| Men whose hearts would flow together | G |
| Though apart their feet might roam | N |
| Found a tie they could not sever | G |
| In the mem'ry of each home | N |
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| Never may the steps of carnage | M |
| Shake our land from shore to shore | R |
| But may mother home and Heaven | J |
| Be our watchwords evermore | R |
Frances E. W. Harper
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