We Must Get Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FFGGHI JJKKLL MNOOHI PPQQRR NNSSHI TTUUVV VVVVHI WWVVVV NNXXHI YYZZII| We must get home How could we stray like this | A |
| So far from home we know not where it is | B |
| Only in some fair apple blossomy place | C |
| Of children's faces and the mother's face | C |
| We dimly dream it till the vision clears | D |
| Even in the eyes of fancy glad with tears | E |
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| We must get home for we have been away | F |
| So long it seems forever and a day | F |
| And O so very homesick we have grown | G |
| The laughter of the world is like a moan | G |
| In our tired hearing and its song as vain | H |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
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| We must get home With heart and soul we yearn | J |
| To find the long lost pathway and return | J |
| The child's shout lifted from the questing band | K |
| Of old folk faring weary hand in hand | K |
| But faces brightening as if clouds at last | L |
| Were showering sunshine on us as we passed | L |
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| We must get home It hurts so staying here | M |
| Where fond hearts must be wept out tear by tear | N |
| And where to wear wet lashes means at best | O |
| When most our lack the least our hope of rest | O |
| When most our need of joy the more our pain | H |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
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| We must get home home to the simple things | P |
| The morning glories twirling up the strings | P |
| And bugling color as they blared in blue | Q |
| And white o'er garden gates we scampered through | Q |
| The long grape arbor with its under shade | R |
| Blue as the green and purple overlaid | R |
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| We must get home All is so quiet there | N |
| The touch of loving hands on brow and hair | N |
| Dim rooms wherein the sunshine is made mild | S |
| The lost love of the mother and the child | S |
| Restored in restful lullabies of rain | H |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
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| The rows of sweetcorn and the China beans | T |
| Beyond the lettuce beds where towering leans | T |
| The giant sunflower in barbaric pride | U |
| Guarding the barn door and the lane outside | U |
| The honeysuckles midst the hollyhocks | V |
| That clamber almost to the martin box | V |
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| We must get home where as we nod and drowse | V |
| Time humors us and tiptoes through the house | V |
| And loves us best when sleeping baby wise | V |
| With dreams not tear drops brimming our clenched eyes | V |
| Pure dreams that know nor taint nor earthly stain | H |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
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| We must get home The willow whistle's call | W |
| Trills crisp and liquid as the waterfall | W |
| Mocking the trillers in the cherry trees | V |
| And making discord of such rhymes as these | V |
| That know nor lilt nor cadence but the birds | V |
| First warbled then all poets afterwards | V |
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| We must get home and unremembering there | N |
| All gain of all ambition otherwhere | N |
| Rest from the feverish victory and the crown | X |
| Of conquest whose waste glory weighs us down | X |
| Fame's fairest gifts we toss back with disdain | H |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
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| We must get home again we must we must | Y |
| Our rainy faces pelted in the dust | Y |
| Creep back from the vain quest through endless strife | Z |
| To find not anywhere in all of life | Z |
| A happier happiness than blest us then | I |
| We must get home we must get home again | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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