No Letters From Home! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DBCB EFEFCGCB CBCBHBHB AIAIJBJB JBJB| A stranger lies ill in a distant city | A |
| With no letters from home | B |
| The glances that meet him in lieu of pity | A |
| Are querring Why does he roam | B |
| Oh heed my request says he else 'twere better | C |
| I slept in this gold dusted loam | B |
| Dismiss the physician and bring a letter | C |
| A flock of kind letters from home | B |
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| Oh heed my request says he else 'twer better I | D |
| I slept in this gold dusted loam | B |
| Dismiss the physician and bring a letter | C |
| A flock of kind letters from home | B |
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| Like messenger doves from across the mountains | E |
| Cream tinted and golden and white | F |
| Like the clouds that have sipp'd at the Eastern fountains | E |
| For thirsty land to take flight | F |
| So come the dear missives but ah the stranger | C |
| Receives none to lighten his gloom | G |
| In this time of sickness this hour of danger | C |
| Not ever one letter from home | B |
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| He moans in his slumber Why did I ever | C |
| So far westwardly roam | B |
| Oh must I lie down must I sleep forever | C |
| With no loving letters from home | B |
| My bones you may bury where winds are lifting | H |
| Pacific's broad billows in foam | B |
| Or there on Lone Mountain where sands are drifting | H |
| But first bring a letter from home | B |
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| From the 'Golden' up to the portals pearly | A |
| He murmurs Oh can it be far | I |
| On the sunset domain in the morn how early | A |
| Will glimmer the Orient Star | I |
| What light is the melting my shade like fetters | J |
| What birds are those circling the dome | B |
| Those messenger doves are my long sought letters | J |
| My flock of kind letters from home | B |
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| They heed my request says he best of debtors | J |
| Their favors are whitening the dome | B |
| Sweet messenger doves are my long sought letters | J |
| My flock of kind letters from home | B |
Henry Clay Work
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