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 bareA
And lonesome was the house and dark and few came thereA
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Now don't ye rub your eyes so red we're home and have no caresB
Here's a skimmer cake for supper peckled onions and some pearsB
I've got a little keg o' summat strong too under stairsB
What slight your husband's victuals Other brides can tackle theirsB
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The wind of winter mooed and mouthed their chimney like a hornC
And round the house and past the house 'twas leafless and lornC
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But my dear and tender poppet then how came ye to agreeD
In Ivel church this morning Sure there right you married meD
Hoo hoo I don't know I forgot how strange and far 'twould beD
An' I wish I was at home again with dear daddeeE
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Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bareA
And lonesome was the house and dark and few came thereA
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I didn't think such furniture as this was all you'd ownC
And great black beams for ceiling and a floor o' wretched stoneC
And nasty pewter platters horrid forks of steel and boneC
And a monstrous crock in chimney 'Twas to me quite unbeknownC
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Rattle rattle went the door down flapped a cloud of smokeF
As shifting north the wicked wind assayed a smarter strokeF
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Now sit ye by the fire poppet put yourself at easeG
And keep your little thumb out of your mouth dear pleaseG
And I'll sing to 'ee a pretty song of lovely flowers and beesG
And happy lovers taking walks within a grove o' treesG
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Gruffly growled the wind on Toller Down so bleak and bareA
And lonesome was the house and dark and few came thereA
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Now don't ye gnaw your handkercher 'twill hurt your little tongueH
And if you do feel spitish 'tis because ye are over youngH
But you'll be getting older like us all ere very longI
And you'll see me as I am a man who never did 'ee wrongI
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Straight from Whit'sheet Hill to Benvill Lane the blusters passJ
Hitting hedges milestones handposts trees and tufts of grassJ
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Well had I only known my dear that this was how you'd beD
I'd have married her of riper years that was so fond of meD
But since I can't I've half a mind to run away to seaD
And leave 'ee to go barefoot to your d d daddeeE
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Up one wall and down the other past each window paneC
Prance the gusts and then away down Crimmercrock's long laneC
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I I don't know what to say to't since your wife I've vowed to beD
And as 'tis done I s'pose here I must bide poor meD
Aye as you are ki ki kind I'll try to live along with 'eeK
Although I'd fain have stayed at home with dear daddeeE
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Gruffly growled the wind on Toller Down so bleak and bareA
And lonesome was the house and dark and few came thereA
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That's right my Heart And though on haunted Toller Down we beD
And the wind swears things in chimley we'll to supper merrilyD
So don't ye tap your shoe so pettish like but smile at meD
And ye'll soon forget to sock and sigh for dear daddeeE
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DecemberL

Thomas Hardy



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