Stafford's Cabin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN| Once there was a cabin here and once there was a man | A |
| And something happened here before my memory began | A |
| Time has made the two of them the fuel of one flame | B |
| And all we have of them is now a legend and a name | B |
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| All I have to say is what an old man said to me | C |
| And that would seem to be as much as there will ever be | C |
| Fifty years ago it was we found it where it sat | D |
| And forty years ago it was old Archibald said that | D |
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| An apple tree that's yet alive saw something I suppose | E |
| Of what it was that happened there and what no mortal knows | E |
| Some one on the mountain heard far off a master shriek | F |
| And then there was a light that showed the way for men to seek | F |
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| We found it in the morning with an iron bar behind | G |
| And there were chains around it but no search could ever find | G |
| Either in the ashes that were left or anywhere | H |
| A sign to tell of who or what had been with Stafford there | H |
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| Stafford was a likely man with ideas of his own | I |
| Though I could never like the kind that likes to live alone | I |
| And when you met you found his eyes were always on your shoes | J |
| As if they did the talking when he asked you for the news | J |
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| That's all my son Were I to talk for half a hundred years | K |
| I'd never clear away from there the cloud that never clears | K |
| We buried what was left of it the bar too and the chains | L |
| And only for the apple tree there's nothing that remains | L |
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| Forty years ago it was I heard the old man say | M |
| That's all my son And here again I find the place to day | M |
| Deserted and told only by the tree that knows the most | N |
| And overgrown with golden rod as if there were no ghost | N |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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