One Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DED FGF HIB JKL| Mine was a Midwest home you can keep your world | A |
| Plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code | B |
| We sang hymns in the house the roof was near God | C |
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| The light bulb that hung in the pantry made a wan light | D |
| but we could read by it the names of preserves | E |
| outside the buffalo grass and the wind in the night | D |
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| A wildcat sprang at Grandpa on the Fourth of July | F |
| when he was cutting plum bushes for fuel | G |
| before Indians pulled the West over the edge of the sky | F |
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| To anyone who looked at us we said My friend | H |
| liking the cut of a thought we could say Hello | I |
| But plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code | B |
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| The sun was over our town it was like a blade | J |
| Kicking cottonwood leaves we ran toward storms | K |
| Wherever we looked the land would hold us up | L |
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