Penumbra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ AKLMHNOPQRST UHVWXYZA2B2C2T D2E2D2YF2X AG2EED2QH2R| As I sit here in the quiet Summer night | A |
| Suddenly from the distant road there comes | B |
| The grind and rush of an electric car | C |
| And from still farther off | D |
| An engine puffs sharply | E |
| Followed by the drawn out shunting scrape of a freight train | F |
| These are the sounds that men make | G |
| In the long business of living | H |
| They will always make such sounds | I |
| Years after I am dead and cannot hear them | J |
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| Sitting here in the Summer night | A |
| I think of my death | K |
| What will it be like for you then | L |
| You will see my chair | M |
| With its bright chintz covering | H |
| Standing in the afternoon sunshine | N |
| As now | O |
| You will see my narrow table | P |
| At which I have written so many hours | Q |
| My dogs will push their noses into your hand | R |
| And ask ask | S |
| Clinging to you with puzzled eyes | T |
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| The old house will still be here | U |
| The old house which has known me since the beginning | H |
| The walls which have watched me while I played | V |
| Soldiers marbles paper dolls | W |
| Which have protected me and my books | X |
| The front door will gaze down among the old trees | Y |
| Where as a child I hunted ghosts and Indians | Z |
| It will look out on the wide gravel sweep | A2 |
| Where I rolled my hoop | B2 |
| And at the rhododendron bushes | C2 |
| Where I caught black spotted butterflies | T |
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| The old house will guard you | D2 |
| As I have done | E2 |
| Its walls and rooms will hold you | D2 |
| And I shall whisper my thoughts and fancies | Y |
| As always | F2 |
| From the pages of my books | X |
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| You will sit here some quiet Summer night | A |
| Listening to the puffing trains | G2 |
| But you will not be lonely | E |
| For these things are a part of me | E |
| And my love will go on speaking to you | D2 |
| Through the chairs and the tables and the pictures | Q |
| As it does now through my voice | H2 |
| And the quick necessary touch of my hand | R |
Amy Lowell
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