My Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG HBHBCICI GJGKGLGL CGCGGFGFI 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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