The Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB AFAF GB GBThey turned him loose he bowed his head | A |
A felon bent and grey | B |
His face was even as the Dead | A |
He had no word to say | B |
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He sought the home of his old love | C |
To look on her once more | D |
And where her roses breathed above | C |
He cowered beside the door | D |
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She sat there in the shining room | E |
Her hair was silver grey | B |
He stared and stared from out the gloom | E |
He turned to go away | B |
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Her roses rustled overhead | A |
She saw with sudden start | F |
I knew that you would come she said | A |
And held him to her heart | F |
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Her face was rapt and angel sweet | G |
She touched his hair of grey | B |
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But he sob shaken at her feet | G |
Could only pray and pray | B |
Robert Service
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