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The Lodger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I cannot	A
quite recall	B
When first he came	C
So reticent and tall	B
With his eyes of flame	C
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The neighbors used to say	D
They know so much	E
He looked to them half way	D
Spanish or Dutch	E
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Outlandish certainly	F
He is and queer	G
He has been lodged with me	F
This thirty year	G
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All the while it seems absurd	H
We hardly have	I
Exchanged a single word	H
Mum as the grave	J
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Minds only his own affairs	K
Goes out and in	L
And keeps himself upstairs	K
With his violin	L
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Mum did I say And yet	M
That talking smile	N
You never can forget	M
Is all the while	N
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Full of such sweet reproofs	K
The darkest day	D
Like morning on the roofs	K
In flush of May	D
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Like autumn on the hills	K
At four o'clock	O
The sun like a herdsman spills	K
For drove and flock	O
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Peace with their provender	G
And they are fed	P
The day without a stir	G
Lies warm and red	P
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Ah sir the summer land	Q
For me That is	K
Like living in God's hand	Q
Compared to this	K
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His smile so quiet and deep	R
Reminds me of it	S
I see it in my sleep	R
And so I love it	S
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An anarchist say some	T
But tush say I	U
When a man's heart is plumb	T
Can his life be awry	U
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Better than charity	F
And bigger too	V
That heart You've seen the sea	F
Of course To you	V
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'T is common enough no doubt	W
But here in town	X
With God's world all shut out	W
Save the leaden frown	X
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Of the sky a slant of rain	Y
And a straggling star	G
Such memories remain	Y
The wonders they are	G
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Once at the Isles of Shoals	K
And it was June	Z
Now hear me dote He strolls	K
Across my noon	Z
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Like the sun that day where sleeps	K
My soul his gaze	K
Goes glimmering down my deeps	K
Of yesterdays	K
	-
Searching and searching till	A2
Its light consumes	K
The reluctant shapes that fill	A2
Those purple glooms	K
	-
Let others applaud defame	C
And the noise die down	X
His voice saying your name	C
Is enough renown	X
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Too patient pitiful	B2
Too fierce at wrong	C2
To patronize the dull	B2
Or praise the strong	C2
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And yet he has a soul	D2
Of wrath though pent	E2
Even when that white ghoul	F2
Comes for his rent	E2
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The landlord Hush My God	G2
I think the walls	K
Take notes to help him prod	G2
Us up He galls	K
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My very soul to strife	H2
With his death's head face	K
He is foul too in his life	H2
Some hid disgrace	K
	-
Some secret thing he does	K
I warrant you	V
For all his cheek to us	K
Is shaved so blue	V
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He takes good care by the shade	I2
Of seven wives	K
That the undertaker's trade	I2
He lives by thrives	K
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Nor chick nor child has he	F
So servile smug	J2
With that cringe in his knee	F
God curse his lug	J2
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But him you should have seen	K2
Him yesterday	D
The landlord's smirk turned green	K2
At his smile The way	D
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He served that bloodless fish	L2
Were like to freeze him	M2
But meeting elsewhere pish	L2
He never sees him	M2
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Yet such a gentleman	N2
So sure and slow	O2
The vilest harridan	N2
Is not too low	O2
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If there is pity's need	P2
And no man born	N2
For cruelty or greed	P2
Escapes that scorn	N2
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Most of all things it seems	K
He loves the town	N2
Watching the bright faced streams	K
Go up and down	N2
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I have surprised him often	N2
On Tremont street	Q2
And marked the grave face soften	N2
The mouth grow sweet	Q2
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In a brown study over	G
The men and women	N2
An unsuspected rover	G
That for our Common	N2
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When the first jonquils come	T
And spring is sold	R2
On the street corners some	T
Of the pretty gold	R2
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Is sure to find its way	D
Home in his hand	Q
And many a winter day	D
At some cab stand	Q
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He'll watch the cabmen feed	P2
The pigeon flocks	K
Or bid some liner speed	P2
From the icy docks	K
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His rooms I much regret	M
You cannot see	F
His rooms but they were let	M
With guarantee	F
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Of his seclusion there	G
Except myself	S2
Each morning table chair	G
Lamp hearth and shelf	S2
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I rearrange refreshen	N2
Put all to rights	K
Then leave him in possession	N2
Ah but the nights	K
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The nights Sir if I dared	T2
But once set eye	U
To keyhole nor be scared	T2
From playing Paul Pry	U
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I doubt not I should learn	N2
A wondrous thing	U2
Or two and in return	N2
Go blind till spring	U2
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The light under his door	G
Is glory enough	V2
It outshines any star	G
That I know of	W2
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Wirrah my lad my lad	X2
'T is fearsome strange	Y2
The hints we all have had	X2
Passing the range	Y2
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Of science knowledge law	Z2
Or what you will	A2
Whose intangible touch of awe	A3
Makes reason nil	A2
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Many a night I start	B3
Sudden awake	C3
Feeling my smothered heart	B3
Flutter and quake	C3
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Like an aspen at dead of noon	N2
When not a breath	D3
Is stirring to trouble the boon	N2
Valley A wraith	D3
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Or a fetch it must be shivers	K
The soul of the tree	F
Till every leaf of it quivers	K
And so with me	F
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Was it the shuffle of feet	Q2
I heard go by	U
With muffled drums in the street	Q2
Was it the cry	U
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Of a rider riding the night	E3
Into ashes and dawn	N2
With news in his nostrils and fright	E3
Where his hoof beats had gone	N2
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Did the pipes at Bonny Dundee	F
Bid regiments form	F3
Did a renegade's soul get free	F
On a wail of the storm	F3
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Did a flock of wild geese honk	G3
As they cleared the hill	A2
Or only a bittern cronk	G3
Then all was still	A2
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Was it a night stampede	P2
Of a thousand head	P
I know I shook like a reed	P2
There on my bed	P
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Nameless and void and wild	H3
Was the fear before me	F
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Ere I bethought me and smiled	H3
As the truth flashed o'er me	F
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Of course it was only his hand	Q
Freeing the bass	K
Of his old Amati grand	Q
In the silence' face	K
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Rummaging up and down	N2
From string to string	U2
Bidding the discords drown	N2
The harmonies spring	U2
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Where tides and tide winds rove	I3
Far out from land	Q
On the ocean of music a move	J3
At the will of his hand	Q
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Sobbing and grieving now	N2
Now glad as a bird	H
Thou thou thou	N2
Of the joys unheard	H
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Luminous radiant sea	F
Of the sounds and time	K3
Surely surely by thee	F
Is eternal prime	K3
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Holy and beautiful deep	R
Spread down before	G
The imperial coming of sleep	R
Endure endure	G
	-
And sleep be thou the ranger	G
Over it wan	N2
And dream be thou no stranger	G
There with the dawn	N2
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Then wings of the sun go abroad	L3
As a scarlet desire	G
Unwearied unwaning unawed	L3
To quest and aspire	G
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Till the drench of the dusk you drink	M3
In the poppy field west	L3
Then veer and settle and sink	M3
As a gull to her nest	L3
	-
Wind	L3
Away away	D
And hurry your phantom kind	L3
Through the gates of day	D
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Or ever the king's dark cup	N3
With its studs and spars	F
Be inverted and earth look up	N3
To the shuddering stars	F
	-
Blaring and triumphing now	N2
Now quailing and lone	N2
Thou thou thou	N2
Of the joys unknown	N2
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Unknown and wild wild	L3
Where the merrymen be	F
Sink to sleep soul of a child	L3
Slumber thou sea	F
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All this his fiddle plays	F
And many a thing	U2
As strange when his mood so lays	F
The bow to the string	U2
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Sleepless He never sleeps	F
That I can find	L3
I marvel how he keeps	F
A bit of his mind	L3
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There is neither sight nor sound	L3
In the world of sense	F
But he has fathomed and found	L3
In the silvery tense	F
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Keen cords on the amber wood	L3
As he wrings them thence	F
Death smiles at his hardihood	L3
For recompense	F
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Oh fair they are so fair	G
No tongue can tell	O3
How he sets them chiming there	G
Clear as a bell	O3
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An orchard of birds in June	N2
The winds that stream	P3
The cold sea brooks that croon	N2
The storms that scream	P3
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The planets that float and swing	U2
Like buoys on the tide	L3
The north going legions in spring	U2
The hills that abide	L3
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The frigate bird clouds that range	Y2
The vagabond moon	N2
That wilful lover of change	Y2
And the workaday sun	N2
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Dying summer and fall	B
Seasons and men	N2
And herds he has them all	B
In his shadowy ken	N2
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He calls and they come leaving strife	H2
Leaving discord and death	D3
Out of oblivion to life	H2
Though its span be a breath	D3
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There they are all the beautiful things	F
I loved and lost sight of	W2
Long since in the far away springs	F
Come back for a night of	W2
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New being as good as their old	L3
Aye better in fact	L3
For somehow he gilds their fine gold	L3
Gives the one thing they lacked	L3
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The breath aspiration desire	G
Core kindle control	D2
Memory and rapture and fire	G
The touch of man's soul	D2
	-
How know the true master I know	N2
By my joys and my fears	F
For my heart crumbles down like the snow	N2
With spring rain into tears	F
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Now I am a precious one	N2
With nothing to do	L3
But idle here in the sun	N2
And gossip with you	L3
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Of a stranger you have not seen	N2
As like never will	A2
I would every soul had a screen	N2
When the wind sets ill	A2
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In the world's bleak house like this	F
Strange lodger of mine	N2
His presence is worse to miss	F
Than sun's best shine	N2
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I put no thought at all	B
Upon the end	L3
If only I may call	B
Such a man friend	L3
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And a friend he is heart light	L3
With love for heft	L3
Proud as silence whose right	L3
Hand ignores his left	L3
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Yes odd he gives his name	C
As Spiritus	F
But that is vague as a flame	C
In the wind to us	F
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And then but not a breath	D3
Of this you see	F
All his effects my faith	D3
Are marked D V	F
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His cape coat has a rip	Q3
But for all that	L3
Folk smile suggest a dip	Q3
In the dyer's vat	L3
	-
Those purple aldermen	N2
Who roll about	L3
In coaches drive till ten	N2
And die of gout	L3
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I think he finely shows	F
How learning's crumbs	F
At least can rival those	F
Of 'st here he comes	F