Memory's Mansion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKLKMNMN OPOPQRQR| In Memory's Mansion are wonderful rooms | A |
| And I wander about them at will | B |
| And I pause at the casements where boxes of blooms | A |
| Are sending sweet scents o'er the sill | B |
| I lean from a window that looks on a lawn | C |
| From a turret that looks on the wave | D |
| But I draw down the shade when I see on some glade | E |
| A stone standing guard by a grave | D |
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| To Memory's attic I clambered one day | F |
| When the roof was resounding with rain | G |
| And there among relics long hidden away | F |
| I rummaged with heart ache and pain | G |
| A hope long surrendered and covered with dust | H |
| A pastime out grown and forgot | I |
| And a fragment of love all corroded with rust | H |
| Were lying heaped up in one spot | I |
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| And there on the floor of that garret was tossed | J |
| A friendship too fragile to last | K |
| With pieces of dearly bought pleasures that cost | L |
| Vast fortunes of pain in the past | K |
| A fabric of passion once vivid and bright | M |
| As the breast of a robin in Spring | N |
| Was spread out before me a terrible sight | M |
| A moth eaten rag of a thing | N |
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| Then down the deep stairway I hurriedly went | O |
| And into fair chambers below | P |
| But the mansion seemed filled with the old attic scent | O |
| Wherever my footsteps would go | P |
| Though in Memory's House I still wander full oft | Q |
| No more to the garret I climb | R |
| And I leave all the rubbish heaped there in the loft | Q |
| To the hands of the Housekeeper Time | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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