Bein' Back Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGHHII AAJJKKGG LLKBMMKK NNGGOOGG PPGGOOQL| Home agin an' home to stay | A |
| Yes it's nice to be away | A |
| Plenty things to do an' see | B |
| But the old place seems to me | B |
| Jest about the proper thing | C |
| Mebbe 'ts 'cause the mem'ries cling | C |
| Closer 'round yore place o' birth | D |
| 'N ary other spot on earth | D |
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| W'y it's nice jest settin' here | E |
| Lookin' out an' seein' clear | F |
| 'Thout no smoke ner dust ner haze | G |
| In these sweet October days | G |
| What's as good as that there lane | H |
| Kind o' browned from last night's rain | H |
| 'Pears like home has got the start | I |
| When the goal's a feller's heart | I |
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| What's as good as that there jay | A |
| Screechin' up'ards towards the gray | A |
| Skies An' tell me what's as fine | J |
| As that full leafed pumpkin vine | J |
| Tow'rin' buildin's yes they're good | K |
| But in sight o' field and wood | K |
| Then a feller understan's | G |
| 'Bout the house not made with han's | G |
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| Let the others rant an' roam | L |
| When they git away from home | L |
| Jest gi' me my old settee | K |
| An' my pipe beneath a tree | B |
| Sight o' medders green an' still | M |
| Now and then a gentle hill | M |
| Apple orchards full o' fruit | K |
| Nigh a cider press to boot | K |
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| That's the thing jest done up brown | N |
| D'want to be too nigh to town | N |
| Want to have the smells an' sights | G |
| An' the dreams o' long still nights | G |
| With the friends you used to know | O |
| In the keerless long ago | O |
| Same old cronies same old folks | G |
| Same old cider same old jokes | G |
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| Say it's nice a gittin' back | P |
| When yore pulse is growin' slack | P |
| An' yore breath begins to wheeze | G |
| Like a fair set valley breeze | G |
| Kind o' nice to set aroun' | O |
| On the old familiar groun' | O |
| Knowin' that when Death does come | Q |
| That he'll find you right at home | L |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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