There's Been A Death In The Opposite House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EDFG EHIJ KLMN OPAP QRST| There's been a death in the opposite house | A |
| As lately as to day | B |
| I know it by the numb look | C |
| Such houses have alway | D |
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| The neighbors rustle in and out | E |
| The doctor drives away | D |
| A window opens like a pod | F |
| Abrupt mechanically | G |
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| Somebody flings a mattress out | E |
| The children hurry by | H |
| They wonder if It died on that | I |
| I used to when a boy | J |
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| The minister goes stiffly in | K |
| As if the house were his | L |
| And he owned all the mourners now | M |
| And little boys besides | N |
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| And then the milliner and the man | O |
| Of the appalling trade | P |
| To take the measure of the house | A |
| There'll be that dark parade | P |
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| Of tassels and of coaches soon | Q |
| It's easy as a sign | R |
| The intuition of the news | S |
| In just a country town | T |
Emily Dickinson
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