The Home-coming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHEHE IJIJKLKL MNMOIEIE| My boy's come back he's here at last | A |
| He came home on a special train | B |
| My longing and my ache are past | A |
| My only son is back again | C |
| He's home with music flags and flowers | D |
| With peace and joy my heart's abrim | E |
| He got here in the morning hours | D |
| With half the town to welcome him | E |
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| To hush my grief night after night | F |
| How I have digged my pillow deep | G |
| And it would be the morning light | F |
| Before I sobbed myself to sleep | G |
| And how I used to stare and stare | H |
| Across the harbour's yeasty foam | E |
| Thinking he's fighting far out there | H |
| But now with bells my boy's come home | E |
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| There's Mrs Burke she has her Ted | I |
| But less the sight of his two eyes | J |
| And Mrs Smith you know her Fred | I |
| They took his legs off at the thighs | J |
| How can these women happy be | K |
| For all their bravery of talk | L |
| One with a son who cannot see | K |
| One with a boy who'll never walk | L |
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| I should be happier than they | M |
| My lad came back without a scar | N |
| And all the folks are proud they say | M |
| To greet their hero of the war | O |
| So in the gentle eventide | I |
| I'll give God thanks my Bert's come home | E |
| As peacefully I sit beside | I |
| His tiny mound of new turned loam | E |
Robert William Service
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