Our House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDBEBBF GFHHIJJI KKBBLBB MMNNOOFF PP| IT should be yours if I could build | A |
| The quaint old dwelling I desire | B |
| With books and pictures bravely filled | A |
| And chairs beside an open fire | B |
| White panelled rooms with candles lit | C |
| I lie awake to think of it | C |
| - | |
| A dial for the sunny hours | D |
| A garden of old fashioned flowers | D |
| Say marigolds and lavender | B |
| And mignonette and fever few | E |
| And Judas tree and maidenhair | B |
| And candytuft and thyme and rue | B |
| All these for you to wander in | F |
| - | |
| A Chinese carp called Mandarin | G |
| Waving a sluggish silver fin | F |
| Deep in the moat so tame he comes | H |
| To lip your fingers offering crumbs | H |
| Tall chimneys like long listening ears | I |
| White shutters ivy green and thick | J |
| And walls of ruddy Tudor brick | J |
| Grown mellow with the passing years | I |
| - | |
| And windows with small leaded panes | K |
| Broad window seats for when it rains | K |
| A big blue bowl of pot pourri | B |
| And yes a Spanish chestnut tree | B |
| To coin the autumn's minted gold | L |
| A summer house for drinking tea | B |
| All these just think for you and me | B |
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| A staircase of the old black wood | M |
| Cut in the days of Robin Hood | M |
| And banisters worn smooth as glass | N |
| Down which your hand will lightly pass | N |
| A piano with pale yellow keys | O |
| For wistful twilight melodies | O |
| And dusty bottles in a bin | F |
| All these for you to revel in | F |
| - | |
| But when Ah well until that time | P |
| We'll habit in this house of rhyme | P |
Christopher Morley
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