The Person Of The House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF C GHGHIJIJKLKLMLMLLLLL LNLN D LLLLIOPOQRQSTATAUVUV L WXWX YLYL ZLA2L AFLB2LB2C2MC2D2WOWOL E2LE2F2G2F2G2KH2KH2I 2E2I2I2LHLHI2I2I2I2E 2J2E2J2K2LK2LE2SE2C2 LI2LI2L2I2L2I2AM2AM2 LE2LE2| IDYL CCCLXVI | A |
| THE ACCOMPANIMENTS | B |
| The Monthly Nurse | C |
| The Caudle | D |
| The Sentences | E |
| THE KID | F |
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| THE MONTHLY NURSE | C |
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| The sickly airs had died of damp | G |
| Through huddling leaves the holy chime | H |
| Flagged I expecting Mrs Gamp | G |
| Thought Will the woman come in time | H |
| Upstairs I knew the matron bed | I |
| Held her whose name confirms all joy | J |
| To me and tremblingly I said | I |
| Ah will it be a girl or boy | J |
| And soothed my fluttering doubts began | K |
| To sift the pleasantness of things | L |
| Developing the unshapen man | K |
| An eagle baffled of his wings | L |
| Considering next how fair the state | M |
| And large the license that sublimes | L |
| A nineteenth century female fate | M |
| Sweet cause that thralls my liberal rhymes | L |
| And Chastities and colder Shames | L |
| Decorums mute and marvellous | L |
| And fair Behaviour that reclaims | L |
| All fancies grown erroneous | L |
| Moved round me musing till my choice | L |
| Faltered A female in a wig | N |
| Stood by me and a drouthy voice | L |
| Announced her Mrs Betsy Prig | N |
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| THE CAUDLE | D |
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| Sweet Love that sways the reeling years | L |
| The crown and chief of certitudes | L |
| For whose calm eyes and modest ears | L |
| Time writes the rule and text of prudes | L |
| That surpliced stoops a nuptial head | I |
| Nor chooses to live blindly free | O |
| But with all pulses quieted | P |
| Plays tunes of domesticity | O |
| That Love I sing of and have sung | Q |
| And mean to sing till Death yawn sheer | R |
| He rules the music of my tongue | Q |
| Stills it or quickens there or here | S |
| I say but this as we went up | T |
| I heard the Monthly give a sniff | A |
| And if the big dog makes the pup | T |
| She murmured then repeated if | A |
| The caudle on a slab was placed | U |
| She snuffed it snorting loud and long | V |
| I fled I would not stop to taste | U |
| And dreamed all night of things gone wrong | V |
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| THE SENTENCES | L |
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| I | - |
| Abortive Love is half a sin | W |
| But Love's abortions dearer far | X |
| Than wheels without an axle pin | W |
| Or life without a married star | X |
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| II | - |
| My rules are hard to understand | Y |
| For him whom sensual rules depress | L |
| A bandbox in a midwife's hand | Y |
| May hold a costlier bridal dress | L |
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| III | - |
| I like her not in fact I loathe | Z |
| Bugs hath she brought from London beds | L |
| Friend wouldst thou rather bear their growth | A2 |
| Or have a baby with two heads | L |
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| IDYL CCCLXVI | A |
| THE KID | F |
| My spirit in the doorway's pause | L |
| Fluttered with fancies in my breast | B2 |
| Obsequious to all decent laws | L |
| I felt exceedingly distressed | B2 |
| I knew it rude to enter there | C2 |
| With Mrs V in such a state | M |
| And 'neath a magisterial air | C2 |
| Felt actually indelicate | D2 |
| I knew the nurse began to grin | W |
| I turned to greet my Love Said she | O |
| Confound your modesty come in | W |
| What shall we call the darling V | O |
| There are so many charming names | L |
| Girls' Peg Moll Doll Fan Kate Blanche Bab | E2 |
| Boys' Mahershahal hashbaz James | L |
| Luke Nick Dick Mark Aminadab | E2 |
| Lo as the acorn to the oak | F2 |
| As well heads to the river's height | G2 |
| As to the chicken the moist yolk | F2 |
| As to high noon the day's first white | G2 |
| Such is the baby to the man | K |
| There straddling one red arm and leg | H2 |
| Lay my last work in length a span | K |
| Half hatched and conscious of the egg | H2 |
| A creditable child I hoped | I2 |
| And half a score of joys to be | E2 |
| Through sunny lengths of prospect sloped | I2 |
| Smooth to the bland futurity | I2 |
| O fate surpassing other dooms | L |
| O hope above all wrecks of time | H |
| O light that fills all vanquished glooms | L |
| O silent song o'ermastering rhyme | H |
| I covered either little foot | I2 |
| I drew the strings about its waist | I2 |
| Pink as the unshell'd inner fruit | I2 |
| But barely decent hardly chaste | I2 |
| Its nudity had startled me | E2 |
| But when the petticoats were on | J2 |
| I know I said its name shall be | E2 |
| Paul Cyril Athanasius John | J2 |
| Why said my wife the child's a girl | K2 |
| My brain swooned sick with failing sense | L |
| With all perception in a whirl | K2 |
| How could I tell the difference | L |
| Nay smiled the nurse the child's a boy | E2 |
| And all my soul was soothed to hear | S |
| That so it was then startled Joy | E2 |
| Mocked Sorrow with a doubtful tear | C2 |
| And I was glad as one who sees | L |
| For sensual optics things unmeet | I2 |
| As purity makes passion freeze | L |
| So faith warns science off her beat | I2 |
| Blessed are they that have not seen | L2 |
| And yet not seeing have believed | I2 |
| To walk by faith as preached the Dean | L2 |
| And not by sight have I achieved | I2 |
| Let love that does not look believe | A |
| Let knowledge that believes not look | M2 |
| Truth pins her trust on falsehood's sleeve | A |
| While reason blunders by the book | M2 |
| Then Mrs Prig addressed me thus | L |
| Sir if you'll be advised by me | E2 |
| You'll leave the blessed babe to us | L |
| It's my belief he wants his tea | E2 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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