The Dark House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFFF GGHHH IICCC JJKLK MMNNN OOHHH PPAAA QQFFF| Where a faint light shines alone | A |
| Dwells a Demon I have known | A |
| Most of you had better say | B |
| The Dark House and go your way | B |
| Do not wonder if I stay | B |
| - | |
| For I know the Demon's eyes | C |
| And their lure that never dies | C |
| Banish all your fond alarms | D |
| For I know the foiling charms | D |
| Of her eyes and of her arms | D |
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| And I know that in one room | E |
| Burns a lamp as in a tomb | E |
| And I see the shadow glide | F |
| Back and forth of one denied | F |
| Power to find himself outside | F |
| - | |
| There he is who is my friend | G |
| Damned he fancies to the end | G |
| Vanquished ever since a door | H |
| Closed he thought for evermore | H |
| On the life that was before | H |
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| And the friend who knows him best | I |
| Sees him as he sees the rest | I |
| Who are striving to be wise | C |
| While a Demon's arms and eyes | C |
| Hold them as a web would flies | C |
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| All the words of all the world | J |
| Aimed together and then hurled | J |
| Would be stiller in his ears | K |
| Than a closing of still shears | L |
| On a thread made out of years | K |
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| But there lives another sound | M |
| More compelling more profound | M |
| There's a music so it seems | N |
| That assuages and redeems | N |
| More than reason more than dreams | N |
| - | |
| There's a music yet unheard | O |
| By the creature of the word | O |
| Though it matters little more | H |
| Than a wave wash on a shore | H |
| Till a Demon shuts a door | H |
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| So if he be very still | P |
| With his Demon and one will | P |
| Murmurs of it may be blown | A |
| To my friend who is alone | A |
| In a room that I have known | A |
| - | |
| After that from everywhere | Q |
| Singing life will find him there | Q |
| Then the door will open wide | F |
| And my friend again outside | F |
| Will be living having died | F |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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