Goin' Home To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICC JJKKCC LLMMCC NNOOCC| My business on the jury's done the quibblin' all is through | A |
| I've watched the lawyers right and left and give my verdict true | A |
| I stuck so long unto my chair I thought I would grow in | B |
| And if I do not know myself they'll get me there ag'in | B |
| But now the court's adjourned for good and I have got my pay | C |
| I'm loose at last and thank the Lord I'm going home to day | C |
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| I've somehow felt uneasy like since first day I come down | D |
| It is an awkward game to play the gentleman in town | D |
| And this 'ere Sunday suit of mine on Sunday rightly sets | E |
| But when I wear the stuff a week it somehow galls and frets | E |
| I'd rather wear my homespun rig of pepper salt and gray | C |
| I'll have it on in half a jiff when I get home to day | C |
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| I have no doubt my wife looked out as well as any one | F |
| As well as any woman could to see that things was done | F |
| For though Melinda when I'm there won't set her foot outdoors | G |
| She's very careful when I'm gone to tend to all the chores | G |
| But nothing prospers half so well when I go off to stay | C |
| And I will put things into shape when I get home to day | C |
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| The mornin' that I come away we had a little bout | H |
| I coolly took my hat and left before the show was out | H |
| For what I said was naught whereat she ought to take offense | I |
| And she was always quick at words and ready to commence | I |
| But then she's first one to give up when she has had her say | C |
| And she will meet me with a kiss when I go home to day | C |
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| My little boy I'll give 'em leave to match him if they can | J |
| It's fun to see him strut about and try to be a man | J |
| The gamest cheeriest little chap you'd ever want to see | K |
| And then they laugh because I think the child resembles me | K |
| The little rogue he goes for me like robbers for their prey | C |
| He'll turn my pockets inside out when I get home to day | C |
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| My little girl I can't contrive how it should happen thus | L |
| That God could pick that sweet bouquet and fling it down to us | L |
| My wife she says that han'some face will some day make a stir | M |
| And then I laugh because she thinks the child resembles her | M |
| She'll meet me half way down the hill and kiss me any way | C |
| And light my heart up with her smiles when I go home to day | C |
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| If there's a heaven upon the earth a fellow knows it when | N |
| He's been away from home a week and then gets back again | N |
| If there's a heaven above the earth there often I'll be bound | O |
| Some homesick fellow meets his folks and hugs 'em all around | O |
| But let my creed be right or wrong or be it as it may | C |
| My heaven is just ahead of me I'm going home to day | C |
Will Carleton
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