By The Fireside : The Open Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGAG AHAH AIEI JKLK| The old house by the lindens | A |
| Stood silent in the shade | B |
| And on the gravelled pathway | C |
| The light and shadow played | B |
| - | |
| I saw the nursery windows | A |
| Wide open to the air | D |
| But the faces of the children | E |
| They were no longer there | D |
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| The large Newfoundland house dog | F |
| Was standing by the door | G |
| He looked for his little playmates | A |
| Who would return no more | G |
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| They walked not under the lindens | A |
| They played not in the hall | H |
| But shadow and silence and sadness | A |
| Were hanging over all | H |
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| The birds sang in the branches | A |
| With sweet familiar tone | I |
| But the voices of the children | E |
| Will be heard in dreams alone | I |
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| And the boy that walked beside me | J |
| He could not understand | K |
| Why closer in mine ah closer | L |
| I pressed his warm soft hand | K |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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