Back From A Two-years' Sentence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED CFGFHBIB AJKJLFGF| Back from a two years' sentence | A |
| And though it had been ten | B |
| You think I were scarred no deeper | C |
| In the eyes of my fellow men | B |
| 'My fellow men ' Sounds like a satire | C |
| You think and I so allow | D |
| Here in my home since childhood | E |
| Yet more than a stranger now | D |
| - | |
| Pardon Not wholly a stranger | C |
| For I have a wife and child | F |
| That woman has wept for two long years | G |
| And yet last night she smiled | F |
| Smiled as I leapt from the platform | H |
| Of the midnight train and then | B |
| All that I knew was that smile of hers | I |
| And our babe in my arms again | B |
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| Back from a two years' sentence | A |
| But I've thought the whole thing through | J |
| A hint of it came when the bars swung back | K |
| And I looked straight up in the blue | J |
| Of the blessed skies with my hat off | L |
| O ho I've a wife and child | F |
| That woman has wept for two long years | G |
| And yet last night she smiled | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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