When You Come Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHGHIJIJ KLKLMAMA NONPHQHQ| All will be right when you come home dear lad | A |
| But oh 'tis long of coming that you are | B |
| Everything's wrong with all the world and sad | A |
| There are so many hurt in this long war | C |
| So many missing who will never come | D |
| Lying out in the rain and in the cold | E |
| I shall forget it all when you come home | F |
| I shall forget the lonesome things they told | E |
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| There's something something sad that troubles me | G |
| Beats like the rain upon my frightened heart | H |
| A tale about a girl the thing might be | G |
| Whispered in corners secret and apart | H |
| How he was killed and how she never knew | I |
| Because God put a small cloud on her mind | J |
| And how she waited the black winters through | I |
| And the wet summers surely God was kind | J |
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| I took a daisy from the garden bed | K |
| And plucked the petals one by one to tell | L |
| When I and my true lover should be wed | K |
| This year Next year Never the petals fell | L |
| And stopped at Never But it could not guess | M |
| The foolish daisy what true love I had | A |
| I turned from daisies and I plucked heartsease | M |
| To rest my heart on and be safe and glad | A |
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| Everything's wrong Love since you went away | N |
| Such a queer world when all the boys are gone | O |
| And there is no one left but old and grey | N |
| Women and children frightened and alone | P |
| Sometimes the tale is crying at my heart | H |
| Of that poor girl Maybe 'twas but a dream | Q |
| When you come home the shadows will depart | H |
| The lonesome dreams die off in morning gleam | Q |
Katharine Tynan
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