Livingstone's Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGB HB IJKLMNOPPQMB BABBRJ JSJITITIMBJ| My heart to day | A |
| Is strangely full of home | B |
| How is it | C |
| With the dear ones over there | D |
| Five years | E |
| Five long drawn years | E |
| And one short moment is enough | F |
| To alter life's complexion for eternity | G |
| Home Home Home | B |
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| How is it with you all | H |
| At Home | B |
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| And you my dearest one | I |
| Are ever nearer to me than the rest | J |
| Your body lies | K |
| Beneath the baobab | L |
| In far Shapanga | M |
| But your soul is ever nearest | N |
| When I need you most | O |
| Where a man's treasure is | P |
| His heart is | P |
| And half my heart is buried there with you | Q |
| And half works on for Africa | M |
| Home Home Home | B |
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| Why should such thought of home | B |
| Drag at my heart to day | A |
| Why should I longer roam | B |
| Why should I not go home | B |
| Five years of toilsome wanderings | R |
| May claim a rest | J |
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| Nay God knows best | J |
| When He sees well | S |
| He'll take me home and give me well earned rest | J |
| The work is not yet done | I |
| This land of Night | T |
| Is not yet fully opened to the Son | I |
| And His fair Light | T |
| But when the work is done | I |
| Ah then how gladly will I go | M |
| Home Home Home | B |
| To rest | J |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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