The Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB AFAF GB GB| They 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 William Service
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