Where The Children Used To Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEED FFDFFD GFGHIIDJJD FFDFFD| The old farm home is Mother's yet and mine | A |
| And filled it is with plenty and to spare | B |
| But we are lonely here in life's decline | A |
| Though fortune smiles around us everywhere | B |
| We look across the gold | C |
| Of the harvests as of old | C |
| The corn the fragrant clover and the hay | D |
| But most we turn our gaze | E |
| As with eyes of other days | E |
| To the orchard where the children used to play | D |
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| O from our life's full measure | F |
| And rich hoard of worldly treasure | F |
| We often turn our weary eyes away | D |
| And hand in hand we wander | F |
| Down the old path winding yonder | F |
| To the orchard where the children used to play | D |
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| Our sloping pasture lands are filled with herds | G |
| The barn and granary bins are bulging o'ver | F |
| The grove's a paradise of singing birds | G |
| The woodland brook leaps laughing by the door | H |
| Yet lonely lonely still | I |
| Let us prosper as we will | I |
| Our old hearts seem so empty everyway | D |
| We can only through a mist | J |
| See the faces we have kissed | J |
| In the orchard where the children used to play | D |
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| O from our life's full measure | F |
| And rich hoard of worldly treasure | F |
| We often turn our weary eyes away | D |
| And hand in hand we wander | F |
| Down the old path winding yonder | F |
| To the orchard where the children used to play | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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