The Runaway's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHH AIJKJLJLMM NOPOQRSRHH| It was on such a night as this | A |
| Some long unreal years ago | B |
| When all within were wrapp'd in sleep | C |
| And all without was wrapp'd in snow | B |
| The full moon rising in the east | D |
| The old church standing like a ghost | E |
| That shivering in the wintry mist | F |
| And breathless with the silent frost | G |
| A little lad I ran to seek my fortune on the main | H |
| I marvel now with how much hope and with how little pain | H |
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| It is of such a night as this | A |
| In all the lands where I have been | I |
| That memory too faithfully | J |
| Has painted the familiar scene | K |
| By all the shores on every sea | J |
| In luck or loss by night or day | L |
| My highest hope has been to see | J |
| That home from which I ran away | L |
| For this I toil'd to this I look'd through many a weary year | M |
| I marvel now with how much hope and with how little fear | M |
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| On such a night at last I came | N |
| But they were dead I loved of yore | O |
| Ah Mother then my heart felt all | P |
| The pain it should have felt before | O |
| I came away though loth to come | Q |
| I clung and yet why should I cling | R |
| When all have gone who made it home | S |
| It is the shadow not the thing | R |
| A homeless man once more I seek my fortune on the main | H |
| I marvel with how little hope and with what bitter pain | H |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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