Seven Times Seven. Longing For Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCC A BCBDDBC A BEBEFGFGG H ICIJJC H IKILMCMC H NHNHOPOP H HIHIQRQRSHSHH| I | A |
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| A song of a boat | B |
| There was once a boat on a billow | C |
| Lightly she rocked to her port remote | B |
| And the foam was white in her wake like snow | C |
| And her frail mast bowed when the breeze would blow | C |
| And bent like a wand of willow | C |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| I shaded mine eyes one day when a boat | B |
| Went curtseying over the billow | C |
| I marked her course till a dancing mote | B |
| She faded out on the moonlit foam | D |
| And I stayed behind in the dear loved home | D |
| And my thoughts all day were about the boat | B |
| And my dreams upon the pillow | C |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| I pray you hear my song of a boat | B |
| For it is but short | E |
| My boat you shall find none fairer afloat | B |
| In river or port | E |
| Long I looked out for the lad she bore | F |
| On the open desolate sea | G |
| And I think he sailed to the heavenly shore | F |
| For he came not back to me | G |
| Ah me | G |
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| IV | H |
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| A song of a nest | I |
| There was once a nest in a hollow | C |
| Down in the mosses and knot grass pressed | I |
| Soft and warm and full to the brim | J |
| Vetches leaned over it purple and dim | J |
| With buttercup buds to follow | C |
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| V | H |
| - | |
| I pray you hear my song of a nest | I |
| For it is not long | K |
| You shall never light in a summer quest | I |
| The bushes among | L |
| Shall never light on a prouder sitter | M |
| A fairer nestful nor ever know | C |
| A softer sound than their tender twitter | M |
| That wind like did come and go | C |
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| VI | H |
| - | |
| I had a nestful once of my own | N |
| Ah happy happy I | H |
| Right dearly I loved them but when they were grown | N |
| They spread out their wings to fly | H |
| O one after one they flew away | O |
| Far up to the heavenly blue | P |
| To the better country the upper day | O |
| And I wish I was going too | P |
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| VII | H |
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| I pray you what is the nest to me | H |
| My empty nest | I |
| And what is the shore where I stood to see | H |
| My boat sail down to the west | I |
| Can I call that home where I anchor yet | Q |
| Though my good man has sailed | R |
| Can I call that home where my nest was set | Q |
| Now all its hope hath failed | R |
| Nay but the port where my sailor went | S |
| And the land where my nestlings be | H |
| There is the home where my thoughts are sent | S |
| The only home for me | H |
| Ah me | H |
Jean Ingelow
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