A Home. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGE IJIJ FKFK LGLG GEGE GGGG MDMD GNGN JGJG| What is a home A guarded space | A |
| Wherein a few unfairly blest | B |
| Shall sit together face to face | A |
| And bask and purr and be at rest | B |
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| Where cushioned walls rise up between | C |
| Its inmates and the common air | D |
| The common pain and pad and screen | C |
| From blows of fate or winds of care | D |
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| Where Art may blossom strong and free | E |
| And Pleasure furl her silken wing | F |
| And every laden moment be | E |
| A precious and peculiar thing | F |
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| And Past and Future softly veiled | G |
| In hiding mists shall float and lie | H |
| Forgotten half and unassailed | G |
| By either hope or memory | E |
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| While the luxurious Present weaves | I |
| Her perfumed spells untried untrue | J |
| Broiders her garments heaps her sheaves | I |
| All for the pleasure of a few | J |
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| Can it be this the longed for thing | F |
| Which wanderers on the restless foam | K |
| Unsheltered beggars birds on wing | F |
| Aspire to dream of christen Home | K |
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| No Art may bloom and peace and bliss | L |
| Grief may refrain and Death forget | G |
| But if there be no more than this | L |
| The soul of home is wanting yet | G |
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| Dim image from far glory caught | G |
| Fair type of fairer things to be | E |
| The true home rises in our thought | G |
| A beacon set for men to see | E |
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| Its lamps burn freely in the night | G |
| Its fire glows unchidden shed | G |
| Their cheering and abounding light | G |
| On homeless folk uncomforted | G |
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| Each sweet and secret thing within | M |
| Gives out a fragrance on the air | D |
| A thankful breath sent forth to win | M |
| A little smile from others' care | D |
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| The few they bask in closer heat | G |
| The many catch the farther ray | N |
| Life higher seems the world more sweet | G |
| And hope and Heaven less far away | N |
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| So the old miracle anew | J |
| Is wrought on earth and proved good | G |
| And crumbs apportioned for a few | J |
| God blessed suffice a multitude | G |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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