My Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG HBHBCICI GJGKGLGL CGCGGFGF| I love the cheery bustle | A |
| Of children round the house | B |
| The tidy maids a hustle | A |
| The chatter of my spouse | B |
| The laughter and the singing | C |
| The joy on every face | D |
| With frequent laughter ringing | C |
| O Home's a happy place | D |
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| Aye Home's a bit of heaven | E |
| I love it every day | F |
| My line up of eleven | E |
| Combine to make it gay | F |
| Yet when in June they're leaving | C |
| For Sandport by the sea | G |
| By rights I should be grieving | C |
| But gosh I just fell free | G |
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| I'm left with parting kisses | H |
| The guardian of the house | B |
| The romp it's true one misses | H |
| I'm quiet as a mouse | B |
| In carpet slippers stealing | C |
| From room to room alone | I |
| I get the strangest feeling | C |
| The place is all my own | I |
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| It seems to nestle near me | G |
| It whispers in my ear | J |
| My books and pictures cheer me | G |
| Hearth never was so dear | K |
| In peace profound I lap me | G |
| I take no stock of time | L |
| And from the dreams that hap me | G |
| I make like this a rhyme | L |
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| Oh I'm ashamed of saying | C |
| And think it's mean of me | G |
| That when the kids are staying | C |
| At Sandspot on the sea | G |
| And I evoke them clearly | G |
| Disporting in the spray | F |
| I love them still more dearly | G |
| Because they're far away | F |
Robert William Service
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