Livingstone's Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGB HB IJKLMNOPPQMB BABBRJ JSJITITIMBJ

My heart to dayA
Is strangely full of homeB
How is itC
With the dear ones over thereD
Five yearsE
Five long drawn yearsE
And one short moment is enoughF
To alter life's complexion for eternityG
Home Home HomeB
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How is it with you allH
At HomeB
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And you my dearest oneI
Are ever nearer to me than the restJ
Your body liesK
Beneath the baobabL
In far ShapangaM
But your soul is ever nearestN
When I need you mostO
Where a man's treasure isP
His heart isP
And half my heart is buried there with youQ
And half works on for AfricaM
Home Home HomeB
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Why should such thought of homeB
Drag at my heart to dayA
Why should I longer roamB
Why should I not go homeB
Five years of toilsome wanderingsR
May claim a restJ
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Nay God knows bestJ
When He sees wellS
He'll take me home and give me well earned restJ
The work is not yet doneI
This land of NightT
Is not yet fully opened to the SonI
And His fair LightT
But when the work is doneI
Ah then how gladly will I goM
Home Home HomeB
To restJ

William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)



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