Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB AAAA CDCD EE FAFA GH| WHEN you have tidied all things for the night | A |
| And while your thoughts are fading to their sleep | B |
| You'll pause a moment in the late firelight | A |
| Too sorrowful to weep | B |
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| The large and gentle furniture has stood | A |
| In sympathetic silence all the day | A |
| With that old kindness of domestic wood | A |
| Nevertheless the haunted room will say | A |
| 'Someone must be away ' | - |
| - | |
| The little dog rolls over half awake | C |
| Stretches his paws yawns looking up at you | D |
| Wags his tail very slightly for your sake | C |
| That you may feel he is unhappy too | D |
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| A distant engine whistles or the floor | E |
| Creaks or the wandering night wind bangs a door | E |
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| Silence is scattered like a broken glass | F |
| The minutes prick their ears and run about | A |
| Then one by one subside again and pass | F |
| Sedately in monotonously out | A |
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| You bend your head and wipe away a tear | G |
| Solitude walks one heavy step more near | H |
Harold Monro
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