There'll Be No One In The House... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEF GBHI BJBB BBKL MBLB| There'll be no one in the house | A |
| Save for twilight All alone | B |
| Winter's day seen in the space that's | C |
| Made by curtains left undrawn | B |
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| Only flash past of the wet white | D |
| Snowflake clusters glimpsed and gone | B |
| Only roofs and snow and save for | E |
| Roofs and snow no one at home | F |
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| Once more frost will trace its patterns | G |
| I'll be haunted once again | B |
| By my last year's melancholy | H |
| By that other wintertime | I |
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| Once more I'll be troubled by an | B |
| Old unexpiated shame | J |
| And the icy firewood famine | B |
| Will press on the window pane | B |
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| But the quiver of intrusion | B |
| Through those curtains folds will run | B |
| Measuring silence with your footsteps | K |
| Like the future in you'll come | L |
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| You'll appear there in the doorway | M |
| Wearing something white and plain | B |
| Something in the very stuff from | L |
| Which the snowflakes too are sewn | B |
Boris Pasternak
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