Where-away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDAA EEFFGGAA HHIIJJA KKLLLLLL MMNNOOLL| O the Lands of Where Away | A |
| Tell us tell us where are they | A |
| Through the darkness and the dawn | B |
| We have journeyed on and on | C |
| From the cradle to the cross | D |
| From possession unto loss | D |
| Seeking still from day to day | A |
| For the lands of Where Away | A |
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| When our baby feet were first | E |
| Planted where the daisies burst | E |
| And the greenest grasses grew | F |
| In the fields we wandered through | F |
| On with childish discontent | G |
| Ever on and on we went | G |
| Hoping still to pass some day | A |
| O'er the verge of Where Away | A |
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| Roses laid their velvet lips | H |
| On our own with fragrant sips | H |
| But their kisses held us not | I |
| All their sweetness we forgot | I |
| Though the brambles in our track | J |
| Plucked at us to hold us back | J |
| 'Just ahead ' we used to say | A |
| 'Lie the Lands of Where Away ' | - |
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| Children at the pasture bars | K |
| Through the dusk like glimmering stars | K |
| Waved their hands that we should bide | L |
| With them over eventide | L |
| Down the dark their voices failed | L |
| Falteringly as they hailed | L |
| And died into yesterday | L |
| Night ahead and Where Away | L |
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| Twining arms about us thrown | M |
| Warm caresses all our own | M |
| Can but stay us for a spell | N |
| Love hath little new to tell | N |
| To the soul in need supreme | O |
| Aching ever with the dream | O |
| Of the endless bliss it may | L |
| Find in Lands of Where Away | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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