His Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFEEBB EGEGHHII AJAJBBKK LMLMNNOO PHHHQQRR EEEESSII TEUEHHH| 'I'm home again my dear old Room | A |
| I'm home again and happy too | B |
| As peering through the brightening gloom | A |
| I find myself alone with you | B |
| Though brief my stay nor far away | C |
| I missed you missed you night and day | C |
| As wildly yearned for you as now | D |
| Old Room how are you anyhow | D |
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| 'My easy chair with open arms | E |
| Awaits me just within the door | F |
| The littered carpet's woven charms | E |
| Have never seemed so bright before | F |
| The old rosettes and mignonettes | E |
| And ivy leaves and violets | E |
| Look up as pure and fresh of hue | B |
| As though baptized in morning dew | B |
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| 'Old Room to me your homely walls | E |
| Fold round me like the arms of love | G |
| And over all my being falls | E |
| A blessing pure as from above | G |
| Even as a nestling child caressed | H |
| And lulled upon a loving breast | H |
| With folded eyes too glad to weep | I |
| And yet too sad for dreams or sleep | I |
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| 'You've been so kind to me old Room | A |
| So patient in your tender care | J |
| My drooping heart in fullest bloom | A |
| Has blossomed for you unaware | J |
| And who but you had cared to woo | B |
| A heart so dark and heavy too | B |
| As in the past you lifted mine | K |
| From out the shadow to the shine | K |
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| 'For I was but a wayward boy | L |
| When first you gladly welcomed me | M |
| And taught me work was truer joy | L |
| Than rioting incessantly | M |
| And thus the din that stormed within | N |
| The old guitar and violin | N |
| Has fallen in a fainter tone | O |
| And sweeter for your sake alone | O |
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| 'Though in my absence I have stood | P |
| In festal halls a favored guest | H |
| I missed in this old quietude | H |
| My worthy work and worthy rest | H |
| By this I know that long ago | Q |
| You loved me first and told me so | Q |
| In art's mute eloquence of speech | R |
| The voice of praise may never reach | R |
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| 'For lips and eyes in truth's disguise | E |
| Confuse the faces of my friends | E |
| Till old affection's fondest ties | E |
| I find unraveling at the ends | E |
| But as I turn to you and learn | S |
| To meet my griefs with less concern | S |
| Your love seems all I have to keep | I |
| Me smiling lest I needs must weep | I |
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| 'Yet I am happy and would fain | T |
| Forget the world and all its woes | E |
| So set me to my tasks again | U |
| Old Room and lull me to repose | E |
| And as we glide adown the tide | H |
| Of dreams forever side by side | H |
| I'll hold your hands as lovers do | H |
| Their sweethearts' and talk love to you ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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