Interlude: The Hearth And The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKK LLMMNNOOPQIIRRSS| Thou cricket that at dusk in the damp weeds | A |
| all that alack my sickly garden breeds | A |
| silverest the brown air with thy liquid note | B |
| now eve is sharp I hearkening dream remote | B |
| the home my exiled heart hath somewhere known | C |
| far from these busy days that make me lone | C |
| in twilit past where the soon autumn damp | D |
| is gather'd black above the yellow lamp | D |
| that guides my feet towards the rustic roof | E |
| infrequent on the forest edge aloof | E |
| as I return nor fail to greet the way | F |
| ah when the witness of my childish play | F |
| and feel that soon the silver piled snow | G |
| will make the watches warm beside the glow | G |
| that just reveals amid the enfolding gloom | H |
| the smoky joists of the familiar room | H |
| and while thy supper song is shrilling thro' | I |
| that well kept nook my musing shall renew | J |
| its kindred of romance the friendly throng | K |
| that haunts the winters when the nights are long | K |
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| Dusk lowers in this uneasy pause of rain | L |
| a blackness clings and thickens on the pane | L |
| and damp grows westward only watery pale | M |
| two yellow streaks wan glory slowly fail | M |
| night shall be loud and thick with driving spears | N |
| And this was also in the haunting years | N |
| this life hath never known nor this abode | O |
| when the lone window watch'd the lonely road | O |
| winding into the exiled west across | P |
| the desolate plain with seldom on its fosse | Q |
| tipt black against grey gloom a poplar spire | I |
| and I could know the sunset's broken fire | I |
| burn'd sombrely in many a leaden glass | R |
| whose look was dead amid the morbid grass | R |
| where never a dancing foot of harvest came | S |
| and ways were lost a land of vanish'd name | S |
Christopher John Brennan
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