The House Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF AGG HH II JJ KK DD| All wondering and eager eyed within her portico | A |
| I made my plea to Hostess Life one morning long ago | A |
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| Pray show me this great house of thine nor close a single door | B |
| But let me wander where I will and climb from floor to floor | B |
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| For many rooms and curious things and treasures great and small | C |
| Within your spacious mansion lie and I would see them all | C |
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| Then Hostess Life turned silently her searching gaze on me | D |
| And with no word she reached her hand and offered up the key | D |
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| It opened first the door of Hope and long I lingered there | E |
| Until I spied the room of Dreams just higher by a stair | E |
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| And then a door whereon the one word Happiness was writ | F |
| But when I tried the little key I could not make it fit | F |
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| It turned the lock of Pleasure's room where first all seemed so | A |
| bright | G |
| But after I had stayed awhile it somehow lost its light | G |
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| And wandering down a lonely hall I came upon a room | H |
| Marked Duty and I entered it to lose myself in gloom | H |
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| Along the shadowy halls I groped my weary way about | I |
| And found that from dull Duty's room a door of Toil led out | I |
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| It led out to another door whereon a crimson stain | J |
| Made sullenly against the dark these words The Room of Pain | J |
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| But oh the light the light the light that spilled down from above | K |
| And upward wound the stairs of Faith right to the Tower of Love | K |
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| And when I came forth from that place I tried the little key | D |
| And lo the door of Happiness swung open wide and free | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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