The House Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEFDE GBHGB IJBKJ LMNLM OPQOP BRSBR BBSBB IBTIB UVBUV WMXWM IYWKY| The rough north winds have left their icy caves | A |
| To growl and grope for prey | B |
| Upon the murky sea | C |
| The lonely sea gull skims the sullen waves | A |
| All the gray winter day | B |
| - | |
| The mottled sand bird runneth up and down | D |
| Amongst the creaking sedge | E |
| Along the crusted beach | F |
| The time stained houses of the sea walled town | D |
| Seem tottering on its edge | E |
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| An ancient dwelling in this ancient place | G |
| Stands in a garden drear | B |
| A wreck with other wrecks | H |
| The Past is there but no one sees a face | G |
| Within from year to year | B |
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| The wiry rose trees scratch the window pane | I |
| The window rattles loud | J |
| The wind beats at the door | B |
| But never gets an answer back again | K |
| The silence is so proud | J |
| - | |
| The last that lived there was an evil man | L |
| A child the last that died | M |
| Upon the mother's breast | N |
| It seemed to die by some mysterious ban | L |
| Its grave is by the side | M |
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| Of an old tree whose notched and scanty leaves | O |
| Repeat the tale of woe | P |
| And quiver day and night | Q |
| Till the snow cometh and a cold shroud weaves | O |
| Whiter than that below | P |
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| This time of year a woman wanders there | B |
| They say from distant lands | R |
| She wears a foreign dress | S |
| With jewels on her breast and her fair hair | B |
| In braided coils and bands | R |
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| The ancient dwelling and the garden drear | B |
| At night know something more | B |
| Without her foreign dress | S |
| Or blazing gems this woman stealeth near | B |
| The threshold of the door | B |
| - | |
| The shadow strikes against the window pane | I |
| She thrusts the thorns away | B |
| Her eyes peer through the glass | T |
| And down the glass her great tears drip like rain | I |
| In the gray winter day | B |
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| The moon shines down the dismal garden track | U |
| And lights the little mound | V |
| But when she ventures there | B |
| The black and threatening branches wave her back | U |
| And guard the ghostly ground | V |
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| What is the story of this buried Past | W |
| Were all its doors flung wide | M |
| For us to search its rooms | X |
| And we to see the race from first to last | W |
| And how they lived and died | M |
| - | |
| Still would it baffle and perplex the brain | I |
| But show this bitter truth | Y |
| Man lives not in the past | W |
| None but a woman ever comes again | K |
| Back to the House of Youth | Y |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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