Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning

Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England 

Now that April’s there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough 

In England-now!

And after April, when May follows,

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

Hark, where my blossom’d pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover 

Blossoms and dewdrops-at the bent spray’s edge

That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice

over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew

The buttercups, the little children’s dower

-Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!

List the speaker, audience, rhetorical situation, and summary of the poem.

Write the tone & what you think that tone communicates (how it adds to the meaning of the poem).

List metaphors, similes, personification, symbols, and what they all mean.

Write the Rhyme scheme and rhythmic pattern.