Sweet Stay-at-home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKLMM NNOOIIPPQQ| Sweet Stay at Home sweet Well content | A |
| Thou knowest of no strange continent | B |
| Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep | C |
| A gentle motion with the deep | C |
| Thou hast not sailed in Indian seas | D |
| Where scent comes forth in every breeze | D |
| Thou hast not seen the rich grape grow | E |
| For miles as far as eyes can go | E |
| Thou hast not seen a summer's night | F |
| When maids could sew by a worm's light | F |
| Nor the North Sea in spring send out | G |
| Bright hues that like birds flit about | G |
| In solid cages of white ice | H |
| Sweet Stay at Home sweet Love one place | I |
| Thou hast not seen black fingers pick | J |
| White cotton when the bloom is thick | J |
| Nor heard black throats in harmony | K |
| Nor hast thou sat on stones that lie | L |
| Flat on the earth that once did rise | M |
| To hide proud kings from common eyes | M |
| Thou hast not seen plains full of bloom | N |
| Where green things had such little room | N |
| They pleased the eye like fairer flowers | O |
| Sweet Stay at Home all these long hours | O |
| Sweet Well content sweet Love one place | I |
| Sweet simple maid bless thy dear face | I |
| For thou hast made more homely stuff | P |
| Nurture thy gentle self enough | P |
| I love thee for a heart that's kind | Q |
| Not for the knowledge in thy mind | Q |
William Henry Davies
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