The Homecoming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBBB CC DDDE AA CCCC FF GGGG AA HHII JJ DDDE CC DDKE AA DDDE L| Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare | A |
| And lonesome was the house and dark and few came there | A |
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| Now don't ye rub your eyes so red we're home and have no cares | B |
| Here's a skimmer cake for supper peckled onions and some pears | B |
| I've got a little keg o' summat strong too under stairs | B |
| What slight your husband's victuals Other brides can tackle theirs | B |
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| The wind of winter mooed and mouthed their chimney like a horn | C |
| And round the house and past the house 'twas leafless and lorn | C |
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| But my dear and tender poppet then how came ye to agree | D |
| In Ivel church this morning Sure there right you married me | D |
| Hoo hoo I don't know I forgot how strange and far 'twould be | D |
| An' I wish I was at home again with dear daddee | E |
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| Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare | A |
| And lonesome was the house and dark and few came there | A |
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| I didn't think such furniture as this was all you'd own | C |
| And great black beams for ceiling and a floor o' wretched stone | C |
| And nasty pewter platters horrid forks of steel and bone | C |
| And a monstrous crock in chimney 'Twas to me quite unbeknown | C |
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| Rattle rattle went the door down flapped a cloud of smoke | F |
| As shifting north the wicked wind assayed a smarter stroke | F |
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| Now sit ye by the fire poppet put yourself at ease | G |
| And keep your little thumb out of your mouth dear please | G |
| And I'll sing to 'ee a pretty song of lovely flowers and bees | G |
| And happy lovers taking walks within a grove o' trees | G |
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| Gruffly growled the wind on Toller Down so bleak and bare | A |
| And lonesome was the house and dark and few came there | A |
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| Now don't ye gnaw your handkercher 'twill hurt your little tongue | H |
| And if you do feel spitish 'tis because ye are over young | H |
| But you'll be getting older like us all ere very long | I |
| And you'll see me as I am a man who never did 'ee wrong | I |
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| Straight from Whit'sheet Hill to Benvill Lane the blusters pass | J |
| Hitting hedges milestones handposts trees and tufts of grass | J |
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| Well had I only known my dear that this was how you'd be | D |
| I'd have married her of riper years that was so fond of me | D |
| But since I can't I've half a mind to run away to sea | D |
| And leave 'ee to go barefoot to your d d daddee | E |
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| Up one wall and down the other past each window pane | C |
| Prance the gusts and then away down Crimmercrock's long lane | C |
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| I I don't know what to say to't since your wife I've vowed to be | D |
| And as 'tis done I s'pose here I must bide poor me | D |
| Aye as you are ki ki kind I'll try to live along with 'ee | K |
| Although I'd fain have stayed at home with dear daddee | E |
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| Gruffly growled the wind on Toller Down so bleak and bare | A |
| And lonesome was the house and dark and few came there | A |
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| That's right my Heart And though on haunted Toller Down we be | D |
| And the wind swears things in chimley we'll to supper merrily | D |
| So don't ye tap your shoe so pettish like but smile at me | D |
| And ye'll soon forget to sock and sigh for dear daddee | E |
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| December | L |
Thomas Hardy
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