Wanderer's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJDD HHKK LLMM NOPP| My home is so glad my heart is so light | A |
| My wandering boy has returned to p night | A |
| He is blighted and bruised I know by sin | B |
| But I am so glad to welcome him in | B |
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| The child of my tenderest love and care | C |
| Has broken away from the tempter's snare | C |
| tonight my heart is o'erflowing with joy | D |
| I have found again my wandering boy | D |
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| My heart has been wrung with a thousand fears | E |
| Mine eyes have been drenched with the bitterest tears | F |
| Like shadows that fade are my past alarms | G |
| My boy is enclasped in his mother's arms | G |
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| The streets were not safe for my darling child | H |
| Where sin with its evil attractions smiled | H |
| But his wandering feet have ceased to roam | I |
| And tonight my wayward boy is at home | I |
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| At home with the mother that loves him best | J |
| With the hearts that have ached with sad unrest | J |
| With the hearts that are thrilling with untold joy | D |
| Because we have found our wandering boy | D |
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| In that wretched man so haggard and wild | H |
| I only behold my returning child | H |
| And the blissful tears from my eyes that start | K |
| Are the overflow of a happy heart | K |
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| I have trodden the streets in lonely grief | L |
| I have sought in prayer for my sole relief | L |
| But the depths of my heart tonight are stirred | M |
| I know that the mother's prayer has been heard | M |
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| If the mother love be so strong and great | N |
| For her child sin weary and desolate | O |
| Oh what must the love of the Father be | P |
| For souls who have wandered like you and me | P |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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