The Home-going Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFGGCD FFHHCD IIIICD FFJJCD| We must get home for we have been away | A |
| So long it seems forever and a day | A |
| And O so very homesick we have grown | B |
| The laughter of the world is like a moan | B |
| In our tired hearing and its songs as vain | C |
| We must get home we must get home again | D |
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| We must get home It hurts so staying here | E |
| Where fond hearts must be wept out tear by tear | F |
| And where to wear wet lashes means at best | G |
| When most our lack the least our hope of rest | G |
| When most our need of joy the more our pain | C |
| We must get home we must get home again | D |
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| We must get home All is so quiet there | F |
| The touch of loving hands on brow and hair | F |
| Dim rooms wherein the sunshine is made mild | H |
| The lost love of the mother and the child | H |
| Restored in restful lullabies of rain | C |
| We must get home we must get home again | D |
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| We must get home where as we nod and drowse | I |
| Time humors us and tiptoes through the house | I |
| And loves us best when sleeping baby wise | I |
| With dreams not tear drops brimming our clenched eyes | I |
| Pure dreams that know nor taint nor earthly stain | C |
| We must get home we must get home again | D |
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| We must get home and unremembering there | F |
| All gain of all ambitions otherwhere | F |
| Rest from the feverish victory and the crown | J |
| Of conquest whose waste glory weighs us down | J |
| Fame's fairest gifts we toss back with disdain | C |
| We must get home we must get home again | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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Gary Josselyn: The sadness underlining this poem is the fact that we can’t go home again.
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