Going East Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON CPQP RSTS USCS VBWB XYZY A2XXX XXB2X| She came from the East a fair young bride | A |
| With a light and a bounding heart | B |
| To find in the distant West a home | C |
| With her husband to make a start | B |
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| He builded his cabin far away | D |
| Where the prairie flower bloomed wild | E |
| Her love made lighter all his toil | F |
| And joy and hope around him smiled | E |
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| She plied her hands to life's homely tasks | G |
| And helped to build his fortunes up | H |
| While joy and grief like bitter and sweet | I |
| Were mingled and mixed in her cup | H |
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| He sowed in his fields of golden grain | J |
| All the strength of his manly prime | K |
| Nor music of birds nor brooks nor bees | L |
| Was as sweet as the dollar's chime | K |
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| She toiled and waited through weary years | M |
| For the fortune that came at length | N |
| But toil and care and hope deferred | O |
| Had stolen and wasted her strength | N |
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| The cabin changed to a stately home | C |
| Rich carpets were hushing her tread | P |
| But light was fading from her eye | Q |
| And the bloom from her cheek had fled | P |
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| Slower and heavier grew her step | R |
| While his gold and his gains increased | S |
| But his proud domain had not the charm | T |
| Of her humble home in the East | S |
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| Within her eye was a restless light | U |
| And a yearning that never ceased | S |
| A longing to see the dear old home | C |
| She had left in the distant East | S |
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| A longing to clasp her mother's hand | V |
| And nestle close to her heart | B |
| And to feel the heavy cares of life | W |
| Like the sun kissed shadows depart | B |
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| Her husband was adding field to field | X |
| And new wealth to his golden store | Y |
| And little thought the shadow of death | Z |
| Was entering in at his door | Y |
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| He had no line to sound the depths | A2 |
| Of her tears repressed and unshed | X |
| Nor dreamed 'mid plenty a human heart | X |
| Could be starving but not for bread | X |
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| The hungry heart was stilled at last | X |
| Its restless baffled yearning ceased | X |
| A lonely man sat by the bier | B2 |
| Of a corpse that was going East | X |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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