Memory's Mansion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKLKMNMN OPOPQRQRIn 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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