The Room Beneath The Rafters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIJKKLL MNMNOOPP QRQRSSTT| Sometimes when I have dropped asleep | A |
| Draped in soft luxurious gloom | B |
| Across my drowsy mind will creep | A |
| The memory of another room | B |
| Where resinous knots in roofboards made | C |
| A frescoing of light and shade | C |
| And sighing poplars brushed their leaves | D |
| Against the humbly sloping eaves | D |
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| Again I fancy in my dreams | E |
| I'm lying in my trundle bed | F |
| I seem to see the bare old beams | E |
| And unhewn rafters overhead | F |
| The hornet's shrill falsetto hum | G |
| I hear again and see him come | G |
| Forth from his mud walled hanging house | H |
| Dressed in his black and yellow blouse | H |
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| There summer dawns in sleep I stirred | I |
| And wove into my fair dream's woof | J |
| The chattering of a martin bird | I |
| Or rain drops pattering on the roof | J |
| Or half awake and half in fear | K |
| I saw the spider spinning near | K |
| His pretty castle where the fly | L |
| Should come to ruin by and by | L |
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| And there I fashioned from my brain | M |
| Youth's shining structures in the air | N |
| I did not wholly build in vain | M |
| For some were lasting firm and fair | N |
| And I am one who lives to say | O |
| My life has held more good than gray | O |
| And that the splendor of the real | P |
| Surpassed my early dream's ideal | P |
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| But still I love to wander back | Q |
| To that old time and that old place | R |
| To thread my way o'er Memory's track | Q |
| And catch the early morning's grace | R |
| In that quaint room beneath the rafter | S |
| That echoed to my childish laughter | S |
| To dream again the dreams that grew | T |
| More beautiful as they came true | T |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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