Familiar Haunts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFGH I JJKK I LLMM| I | A |
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| Give me the patches on my pants the freckles on my face | B |
| The happy heart where cankering care had never found a place | B |
| And let my bare feet walk again that dirt road down the hill | C |
| That led me to the river's brink beyond the old Mock Mill | C |
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| II | A |
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| Give me the youthful friends I knew now scattered far and wide | D |
| The loved ones who have passed beyond the bounds of time and tide | D |
| And let me see the rose's hue that mantled every cheek | E |
| When we were run aways from school a fishing in the creek | E |
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| III | A |
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| Give me the stone bruise on my heel the hat without a crown | F |
| The unkempt suit of yellow hair the sun had burnt to brown | F |
| And let me go and soak myself just where we used to walk | G |
| In that old swimmin' pool we had up on the Hanging Fork | H |
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| IV | I |
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| Give me the wealth I used to have a wealth of vast content | J |
| The pockets that were always full but in them not a cent | J |
| And let me hear the music sweet the wild birds used to sing | K |
| In woods and fields I wandered o'er beyond the Old Cove Spring | K |
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| V | I |
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| Give me but what's the use of wishing for the days that won't return | L |
| The vanished faces of the friends for whom we fondly yearn | L |
| And what's the use of trying to look beyond the misty screen | M |
| Time's hand has hung between the eye and each familiar scene | M |
George W. Doneghy
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