The Deserted House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCDD EFFG HIHI JKLMKL| Life and Thought have gone away | A |
| Side by side | B |
| Leaving door and windows wide | B |
| Careless tenants they | A |
| - | |
| All within is dark as night | C |
| In the windows is no light | C |
| And no murmur at the door | D |
| So frequent on its hinge before | D |
| - | |
| Close the door the shutters close | E |
| Or through the windows we shall see | F |
| The nakedness and vacancy | F |
| Of the dark deserted house | G |
| - | |
| Come away no more of mirth | H |
| Is here or merry making sound | I |
| The house was builded of the earth | H |
| And shall fall again to ground | I |
| - | |
| Come away for Life and Thought | J |
| Here no longer dwell | K |
| But in a city glorious | L |
| A great and distant city have bought | M |
| A mansion incorruptible | K |
| Would they could have stayed with us | L |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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