Alone In The House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFEFGBGGB HIJIKLKKL MNMNOGOPG| I am all alone in the house to night | A |
| They would not have gone away | B |
| Had they known of the terrible bloodless fight | A |
| I have held with my heart to day | B |
| With the old sweet love and the old fierce pain | C |
| I have battled hour by hour | D |
| But the fates have willed that the strife is vain | C |
| Alone in the hour my thoughts have reign | C |
| And I yield myself to their power | D |
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| Yield myself to the old time charm | E |
| Of a dream of vanished bliss | F |
| The thrill of a voice and the fold of an arm | E |
| And a red lip's lingering kiss | F |
| It all comes back like a flowing tide | G |
| That brief but beautiful day | B |
| Though it oft is checked by the dam of pride | G |
| Till the waters flow back to the other side | G |
| To night it has broken away | B |
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| I gave you all that I had to give | H |
| O love the lavish whole | I |
| And you threw it away and now I live | J |
| A starved and beggared soul | I |
| And I feed on crumbs that memory throws | K |
| From her table over filled | L |
| And I lay awake when others repose | K |
| And slake my thirst when no one knows | K |
| With the wine that she has spilled | L |
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| I go my way and I do my part | M |
| In the world's great scene of strife | N |
| But I do it all with an empty heart | M |
| Dead to the best of life | N |
| And ofttimes weary and tempest tossed | O |
| When I am not ruled by pride | G |
| I wish ere the die was throne and lost | O |
| Ere I played for love without counting the cost | P |
| That I like my heart had died | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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