The Bottom Drawer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE CCCCFGCG HIJIKLML NOPOCGQG NCRCBSC| In the best chamber of the house | A |
| Shut up in dim uncertain light | B |
| There stood an antique chest of drawers | C |
| Of foreign wood with brasses bright | B |
| One day a woman frail and gray | D |
| Stepped totteringly across the floor | E |
| 'Let in ' said she 'the light of day | D |
| Then Jean unlock the bottom drawer | E |
| - | |
| The girl in all youth's loveliness | C |
| Knelt down with eager curious face | C |
| Perchance she dreamt of Indian silks | C |
| Of jewels and of rare old lace | C |
| But when the summer sunshine fell | F |
| Upon the treasures hoarded there | G |
| The tears rushed to her tender eyes | C |
| Her heart was solemn as a prayer | G |
| - | |
| 'Dear Grandmamma ' she softly sighed | H |
| Lifted a withered rose and palm | I |
| But on the elder face was naught | J |
| But sweet content and peaceful calm | I |
| Leaning upon her staff she gazed | K |
| Upon a baby's half worn shoe | L |
| A little frock of finest lawn | M |
| A hat with tiny bows of blue | L |
| - | |
| A ball made fifty years ago | N |
| A little glove a tasselled cap | O |
| A half done 'long division' sum | P |
| Some school books fastened with a strap | O |
| She touched them all with trembling lips | C |
| 'How much ' she said 'the heart can bear | G |
| Ah Jean I thought that I should die | Q |
| The day that first I laid them there | G |
| - | |
| 'But now it seems so good to know | N |
| That through these weary troubled years | C |
| Their hearts have been untouched by grief | R |
| Their eyes have been unstained by tears | C |
| Dear Jean we see with clearer sight | B |
| When earthly life is almost o'er | S |
| Those children wait me in the skies | C |
| For whom I locked the sacred drawer ' | - |
Anonymous Americas
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