The Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AAAA BCBC DADA DEDE FAFF GHGH IAIA JKJL MAMA| 'Tis sweet to think of home | A |
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| When from my native clime | A |
| Mid lonely vallies pensive far I roam | A |
| Mid rocks and hills where waters roll sublime | A |
| 'Tis sweet to think of home | A |
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| My retrospective gaze | B |
| Bounds on a dark horizon far behind | C |
| But yet the stars of homely pleasures blaze | B |
| And glimmer on my mind | C |
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| When pealing thunders roll | D |
| And ruffian winds howl threat'ning life with gloom | A |
| To Heaven's kind hand I then commit the whole | D |
| And smile to think of home | A |
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| But cease my pensive soul | D |
| To languish at departure's gloomy shrine | E |
| Still look in front and hail the joyful goal | D |
| The pleasure teeming line | E |
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| When on the deep wide sea | F |
| I wander sailing mid the swelling foam | A |
| Tost from the land by many a long degree | F |
| O then I think of thee | F |
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| I never shall forget | G |
| The by gone pleasures of my native shore | H |
| Until the sun of life forbears to set | G |
| And pain is known no more | H |
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| When nature seems to weep | I |
| And life hangs trembling o'er the watery tomb | A |
| Hope lifts her peaceful sail to brave the deep | I |
| And bids me think of home | A |
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| My favorite pigeon rest | J |
| Nor on the plane of sorrow drop thy train | K |
| But on the bough of hope erect thy nest | J |
| Till friends shall meet again | L |
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| Though in the hermit's cell | M |
| Where eager friends to cheer me fail to come | A |
| Where Zeph'rus seems a joyless tale to tell | M |
| No thought is sweet but home | A |
George Moses Horton
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