The Old Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF AAA| An old lane an old gate an old house by a tree | A |
| A wild wood a wild brook they will not let me be | A |
| In boyhood I knew them and still they call to me | A |
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| Down deep in my heart's core I hear them and my eyes | B |
| Through tear mists behold them beneath the oldtime skies | B |
| 'Mid bee boom and rose bloom and orchardlands arise | B |
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| I hear them and heartsick with longing is my soul | C |
| To walk there to dream there beneath the sky's blue bowl | C |
| Around me within me the weary world made whole | C |
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| To talk with the wild brook of all the long ago | D |
| To whisper the wood wind of things we used to know | D |
| When we were old companions before my heart knew woe | D |
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| To walk with the morning and watch its rose unfold | E |
| To drowse with the noontide lulled on its heart of gold | E |
| To lie with the night time and dream the dreams of old | E |
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| To tell to the old trees and to each listening leaf | F |
| The longing the yearning as in my boyhood brief | F |
| The old hope the old love would ease me of my grief | F |
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| The old lane the old gate the old house by the tree | A |
| The wild wood the wild brook they will not let me be | A |
| In boyhood I knew them and still they call to me | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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