Right Here At Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC BBBBDD EEAAFF BBGGAA HHBBII BBJJDD| Right here at home boys in old Hoosierdom | A |
| Where strangers allus joke us when they come | A |
| And brag o' their old States and interprize | B |
| Yit settle here and 'fore they realize | B |
| They're 'hoosier' as the rest of us and live | C |
| Right here at home boys with their past fergive | C |
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| Right here at home boys is the place I guess | B |
| Fer me and you and plain old happiness | B |
| We hear the World's lots grander likely so | B |
| We'll take the World's word fer it and not go | B |
| We know its ways aint our ways so we'll stay | D |
| Right here at home boys where we know the way | D |
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| Right here at home boys where a well to do | E |
| Man's plenty rich enough and knows it too | E |
| And's got a' extry dollar any time | A |
| To boost a feller up 'at wants to climb | A |
| And 's got the git up in him to go in | F |
| And git there like he purt' nigh allus kin | F |
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| Right here at home boys is the place fer us | B |
| Where folks' heart's bigger 'n their money pu's' | B |
| And where a common feller's jes as good | G |
| As ary other in the neighborhood | G |
| The World at large don't worry you and me | A |
| Right here at home boys where we ort to be | A |
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| Right here at home boys jes right where we air | H |
| Birds don't sing any sweeter anywhere | H |
| Grass don't grow any greener'n she grows | B |
| Acrost the pastur' where the old path goes | B |
| All things in ear shot's purty er in sight | I |
| Right here at home boys ef we size 'em right | I |
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| Right here at home boys where the old home place | B |
| Is sacerd to us as our mother's face | B |
| Jes as we rickollect her last she smiled | J |
| And kissed us dyin' so and rickonciled | J |
| Seein' us all at home here none astray | D |
| Right here at home boys where she sleeps to day | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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