The House Of Clay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCDAEFFEGHGHFEAA EIJIJAEKKBLMLMNE| THERE was a house a house of clay | A |
| Wherein the inmate sat all day | A |
| Merry and poor | B |
| For Hope sat with her heart to heart | C |
| Fond and kind fond and kind | D |
| Vowing he never would depart | C |
| Till all at once he changed his mind | D |
| Sweetheart good by He slipped away | A |
| And shut the door | E |
| But Love came past and looking in | F |
| With smile that pierced like sunbeam thin | F |
| Through wall roof floor | E |
| Stood in the midst of that poor room | G |
| Grand and fair grand and fair | H |
| Making a glory out of gloom | G |
| Till at the window mocked cruel Care | H |
| Love sighed All lose and nothing win | F |
| He shut the door | E |
| Then o'er the close barred house of clay | A |
| Kind clematis and woodbine gay | A |
| Crept more and more | E |
| And bees hummed merrily outside | I |
| Loud and strong loud and strong | J |
| The inner silentness to hide | I |
| The patient silence all day long | J |
| Till evening touched with finger gray | A |
| The bolted door | E |
| Most like the next step passing by | K |
| Will be the Angel's whose calm eye | K |
| Marks rich marks poor | B |
| Who fearing not at any gate | L |
| Stands and calls stands and calls | M |
| At which the inmate opens straight | L |
| Whom ere the crumbling clay house falls | M |
| He takes in kind arms silently | N |
| And shuts the door | E |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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