To Scenes I Used To Know. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDEEFFBB GGDDHHBB| I can see the back log blazing and the sparkles take their flight | A |
| Up the cavernous old chimney on a merry Christmas night | A |
| I can see the old folks smiling and the children's cheeks aglow | B |
| And a saucy maiden standing there beneath the mistletoe | B |
| I can hear the laughter mingle with the strains of music sweet | C |
| As we tripped the light fantastic with the many twinkling feet | C |
| I can see the moonlight gleaming through the trees upon the snow | B |
| When memory takes me back again to scenes I used to know | B |
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| I can see the candles burning bright upon the Christmas tree | D |
| I can see the presents handed round and hear the shouts of glee | D |
| And from the buried years there comes a stealing on the heart | E |
| A something indefinable which bids the tear drop start | E |
| I can see the blue smoke curling through the little strip of wood | F |
| Between the winding turnpike road and where the farmhouse stood | F |
| I can see the colts a playing I can hear the cattle low | B |
| When memory takes me back again to scenes I used to know | B |
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| I can see it all when fancy weaves its magic with a dream | G |
| And I hear the tones from voices like the murmur of a stream | G |
| And oh the heart seems young again and from its anguish free | D |
| When I gaze upon these pictures that are ever dear to me | D |
| Then I see the darkies dancing I can hear the fiddle ring | H |
| As they gathered in the cabin and they cut the pigeon wing | H |
| I can smell the 'possum roasting I can see the cider flow | B |
| When memory takes me back again to scenes I used to know | B |
George W. Doneghy
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